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christopher2405 · 05-19-2009, 02:06 PM

I sat paper 1 of my GCSE ICT today (OCR Full Course, Specification A if anyone is interested). I think it went pretty well, but there was one question that I didn't have a clue on, and I wondered if anyone could help me (obviously too late now, but could be useful in the future).

Q. Give three possible ways of trying to prevent the graphics software from being illegally copied.

The only answers I could come up with were registry key and (into guessing in the last 10 minutes territory here) requiring a username and password to be entered any time the program is used.

Obviously the first one is pretty obvious, but I don't think I've ever seen an implementation of the second one - is it a legitimate method?

Also, what else would you say could be used? I'm intrigued.

Thanks!

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christopher2405 Registered User Join Date: May 2007 Location: Sunderland Posts: 159 OS: Windows XP Home SP3, Windows Vista Home Basic My System	Gcse ict I sat paper 1 of my GCSE ICT today (OCR Full Course, Specification A if anyone is interested). I think it went pretty well, but there was one question that I didn't have a clue on, and I wondered if anyone could help me (obviously too late now, but could be useful in the future). Q. Give three possible ways of trying to prevent the graphics software from being illegally copied. The only answers I could come up with were registry key and (into guessing in the last 10 minutes territory here) requiring a username and password to be entered any time the program is used. Obviously the first one is pretty obvious, but I don't think I've ever seen an implementation of the second one - is it a legitimate method? Also, what else would you say could be used? I'm intrigued. Thanks! __________________ "Those who can, do; those who can't, teach; those who can't teach, teach PE"