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Subject:Re: VW ETKA cd
From:Doktor Tim
Date:Wed, 17 May 2000 14:33:02 -0700

At 03:35 PM 05/17/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>
>On Wed, 17 May 2000 11:46:29 -0700
>Doktor Tim <doktortim@ROCKISLAND.COM> wrote:
>
>> At 12:48 PM 05/17/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>> >On Wed, 17 May 2000 08:56:01 -0700
>> >Daryl Christensen <aatransaxle@JUNO.COM> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >This CD has been 'cracked', and so it doesn't require the hardlock
>> >code.
>>
>> Why in the hell do they puts those on there, anyway??
>>
>>
>> T.P. Stephens
>> San Juan Island, WA
>
>Its so VW can charge the dealer a monthly subscription to this CD, or
>rather the updates it can recieve.

Yeah, I 'knew' it had something to do with license for receipt of value
created, I just knew that was in their somewhere.

Make the value harder to steal, I see.
T.P. Stephens
San Juan Island, WA