Develloping a registrationsystem

[Stephen Quinn Barncard]

1. Privacy groups were in an uproar when Intel announces such a plan.
    (I agree with them - I don't like the idea)
2. Intel, contrary to common talk, is not the only manufacturer of micros.
3. Software piracy, like music piracy, is not the concern of hardware people.
4. The best copy protection is a USB dongle, like the iLok used with Pro-Tools.

>
>Speculation: why don't other computer manufacturers (or Intel) 
>include a call to uniquely identify a computer?  Is it perhaps 
>because they DON'T WANT to discourage "small scale" software piracy?
>
>Why hasn't the software industry pressed manufacturers for this 
>simple solution instead of everyone trying to devise her/his 
>uncrackable proprietary license scheme?
>--
>
>Rob Cozens