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| Nick Gammon
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| Reply #15 on Sun 07 Sep 2003 08:43 PM (UTC) |
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| OK, everyone, please stay calm.
I have been running this forum for a few years now without it descending into abuse and counter-abuse, thankfully.
All the posts above have some merit, so let's concentrate on the positive aspects. :)
Eos is right, a telnet negotiation sequence could be added that any client that supports the general telnet standard should at least ignore rather than displaying little black boxes on the screen.
As I said, I can see ways people would work-around it, but the general principle of a simple test to see if a player has paid for his client, which probably would successfully detect at least half unregistered copies, could be an incentive to people to register (including competing clients) which is no bad thing.
You may not realise this, but I think around only 1% to 10% of copies of clients that are in use are actually registered - the percentage is quite low. |
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| Eos
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| Reply #16 on Sun 07 Sep 2003 08:57 PM (UTC) |
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| I believe it, and have a good estimate of how many registered copies are actually registered legally.
As I've said before, I strongly encourage players to use Mushclient, and for those who can, to register it, and I'd like to be able to give them that incentive, without taking it away from users who do not have the bandwidth to support MXP, or the desire to use it.
I have slightly different figures on registered uses than you do Nick, but mine is also taking into account the number of illegally registered ones. It'd be nice if there was a way to tell legtimate from cracked, but if it were that easy there wouldn't be cracks in the first place.
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| Reply #17 on Sun 07 Sep 2003 09:35 PM (UTC) Amended on Sun 07 Sep 2003 09:36 PM (UTC) by Poromenos
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| Yes, I would agree to the negotiation thing, since Eos needs to only detect MC, and it's allowed to add new commands by the spec, why not...
(I post just to boost my total posts! :P) |
Vidi, Vici, Veni.
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
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| Reply #18 on Sun 07 Sep 2003 11:39 PM (UTC) |
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| | Added as suggestion #491. |
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