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It's not about DRM... (none / 0) (#3)
by Anonymous User on Thu Oct 02, 2003 at 10:37:14 AM PDT

Duh! Product activation is not about DRM - and certainly not about stopping commercial piracy - it's about market harvesting your personal and system data. You think it sends back just the product name and version number when it goes through activation? If you do, then I humbly suggest you go read some of the marketing materials on the websites of "software copy protection" manufacturers. The ones that I've studied offere extensive information reporting - many of them after product activation on an ongoing basis too - although they say it's up to the implementing vendor how much and how often the data is gathered. Why stay with Symantec at all after this? McAffe gives you a long, long period before you need to pony up $ for more updates. And what's wrong with free anyway? AVG has a free edition. Get it from www.grisoft.com.



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