Copy Protection

[Ben Laurie]

John Sullivan wrote:
> 
> 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?

I don't believe so. In fact, I can't imagine how they would.

Cheers,

Ben.

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