A lot of companies are upset about the issue of people illegally installing, and using, software that they do not own the rights to. As of yet no good program exists to insure that people cannot install and use the software illegally. A few companies have instituted a system by which you have to have an internet connection in order to install the software, and then sending a message to the server that that install key has been used, so that it cannot be used again, however that can lead to problems if the your computer crashes, because then you wouldn't be able to use the install key to re-install the software, and with the cost of software going up, few people would be willing to pay extra just to get software running that they already payed good money for. Now what they could do is to use a system like that, where if you aren't connected to you can't install, but also give you a set ID code to use if your system crashes. If you use the ID code, they would send you a new install key and deactivate the old one. The product would ping the company server to check if the install key is good, and if it is not the program shuts down. This way you couldn't give the software to someone else, and then say that your computer crashed, but it would allow you to keep using the software if your system did crash. Of course the consumer would have to pay for this in the long run, mainly in the form of higher costs for the software, but that is to be expected, companies are in the business of making money, not losing it, and anything that cost them more will in turn cost the consumer more.
Owen Charboneau, Signing Out
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