Of course I couldn't possibily approve...

Really, seriously... would piracy be an issue if the software were written as I described: produce a single large file, unreadable, uneditable, unplayable, flagged so it could only restore to the same empeg that wrote it? You could encrypt the file header, using the empeg's serial number as the decryption key. (Is that serial number hard-wired in the empeg?)

From my position of invincible ignorance, it seems like this should be an easy hurdle to cross.

tanstaafl.

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