On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 04:11:58PM -, Geoff Winkless wrote:
One of the ways I was going to do protection (if I'd ever got round to it)
was buying a load of really crappy disks and writing code specific for each
disk that attempted to format a track I knew would fail - if it formatted
correctly it would know the disk had been copied... not usable on
high-volume items, but for the low-volume Sam market, it would have been
perfectly do-able :)
It doesn't seem a good idea because if they are that crappy then
who's to say they won't start losing real data? (I suppose there
might be a market for time-limited software...)
Better to buy good disks and scratch them with a pin, or something.
imc
