[nfbcs] jaws so sensitive is BS!

Fri Dec 29 21:07:02 UTC 2017

Hi all,
With all due respect to Peter, VFO is already following the activation
scheme he is suggesting. VFO has simply implemented an additional  mechanism
to enforce the single user license agreement they have. I am not agreeing or
disagreeing with tieing the license to a particuar set of hardware, but it
is a clever way to enforce the single user license agreement. 

So VFO uses four ways to enforce copy right and license agreements.
1. valid purchase - serial numbers and registration
2. software key
3. activation code
4. system code, which ties the software and license to the particular
hardware.

I may not have all the correct terms, and many of you who use JAWS know this
already.
In order verify a person purchased the software you have to register the
software. Registration ties the software to a particular company / person
for future support and activation. VFO sells software like many other
companies. Many moons ago, a software key is printed on the back of the case
the software comes in. to activate the software you entered in the software
key.  For obvious reasons this is easy to pirate. So companies implemented
the requirement to activate the software. VFO makes you enter in the
software key along with a system code (generated by the computer typically
), with that a activation code is provided by the software company. After
that step the JAWS software is activated and all functionality is available.
Keeping in mind the registration and activation system have to be
implemented and supported by the software company. Depending on how many
copies of the software are sold this could be expensive.  And further more
if such systems are implemented, there has to be a way for the software to
interact with these systems. Not all computers are connected to the
internet. Hence activation and registration VFO has by internet, phone, and
email. VFO has a license server, so that is what limits the number of
activations per license. If you want to use the license on a differed
computer, then you notify the VFO license server that you are giving back
the activation code on that one computer and then you go to your second /
other computer and ask the license server for your activation code back. Any
other software hyou could take the license file from one computer and put it
on another and you just pirated the software depending on the license
agreement. Some software looks for a valid software key and activation code
/ license file. This strategy can be pirated as well. I have seen this done
a lot with gaming software. 

VFO has simply added a fourth step that most do not, The software license is
a single user license. Meaning it will work only on one computer. What is
unique to that computer but hardware. They figured that the hardware of a
typical computer would not change that often, so the license is tied to the
hardware.
--
Graham Mehl
blind at trailstone.com
NFB Central Maryland Chapter, Vice President
LCB graduate, 2016

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Subject: Re: [nfbcs] jaws so sensitive is BS!

Good morning everyone,

	Other software vendors use a much simpler authorization process to
protect their software from pirates. It's called an authorization code. When
one buys the software and the vendor verrifies that the transaction is legal
the buyer is sent an authorization code they type into fields on an
activation screen to bring the software to life. The code can only be used
for a particular number of activations after which the user receives a
message saying "Unable to activate" or "Too many installs." This would be a
far more streamline way to protect software while not inconveniencing users.
I hope VFO updates its software activation scheme to work in a similar way.

Peter Donahue

-----Original Message-----
From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of David Andrews via
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Sent: Friday, December 29, 2017 3:36 AM
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Cc: David Andrews
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] jaws so sensitive is BS!

No, doing so would be defeating their copy protection, which would be
illegal.

Dave

At 07:00 PM 12/28/2017, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>
>
>In the new age when floppy disks are obsolete, for Christmas I bought 
>myself a icy dock dual 2.5" bay drive cage and obtained visual help to 
>make the sata ports hot plug capable in bios.
>
>Everything works great and the computer recognized the drive when it 
>was shoved into the slot then it killed the jaws activation.
>
>Has anyone found a way around the jaws activation BS that burns a key 
>when you make any little change to your hardware?
>
>Bryan Schulz

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