Copy Protection

[John Sullivan]

At 02:38 PM 07/09/2001, you wrote:

>Indeed. However, this doesn't gain you as much as you might think: in
>the general case it's impossible to write a program that can work out
>what another program is going to do. (Think "halting problem".)

What about software such as VMWare, or other Virtual Machines - surely they 
pre-parse code and alter its behaviour before actually running it?

Me...

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