In a message dated 1/27/00 7:33:23 PM Eastern Standard Time, bjohns@DTX.NET
writes:

<< Well what are the dealers using now?  I am presuming it is on CD.
Getting
 hold of one of these and "burning" a copy has to be the way to go.  Someone
 on this list works for a dealer or has a good friend etc.... It just may
 take a little while.. I want one of the vanagon portion and will pay a fee
 for the service.
  >>
>From what I have been told, they use a CD with a special encryption key that
is plugged into the back of the computer (I have never seen this only heard
about it).  You can have the CD, but without the encryption key it is
worthless.  Also, because of the encryption, you can't just burn a copy of
the CD.  This would give you only a copy of the encrypted CD which would not
work without the key (get the picture).
Of course there are always folks out there that can hack into anything and I
have heard of pirated copies of the CD, but I feel bad about buying one.
However I don't feel bad about turning my microfiche into hard copies and
then scanning them in for my own personal "entertainment purposes only" CD.
Not that I would do anything like that :)

Ken Wilford
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