Anti Piracy was the software industry's initial technical solution to the problem of managing software distribution. Anti Piracy followed the same principle of software licensing, that the software should not be installed on more PCs than permitted by the software licensing agreement, but above all Anti Piracy tried to prevent the software itself from being copied or distributed without permission.
In practice the Anti Piracy approach was cumbersome, irritating to the end user, and very ineffective as it proved so easy to remove. It was clear that a solution other than Anti Piracy was required, that of Software Activation
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was the software industry's initial technical solution to the problem of managing software distribution. Anti Piracy followed the same principle of software licensing, that the software should not be installed on more PCs than permitted by the software licensing agreement, but above all Anti Piracy tried to prevent the software itself from being copied or distributed without permission.
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