I also have rather extensive knowledge on this subject, but this is because I an highly oppsed to software piracy and have researched how they work, and I also run a small group on IRC which cracks down warezers.

Spazzy: what you say is not quite true. Even if a license code is out of date, the pirate could set their computer clock back and the reg. app would have no way of knowing. Ambrosia codes are valid for one month, then they have to be renewed. A pirate who has an outdated code for a product simply has to try setting his clock to every month since the product was released. Eventually they will come across the right one. This is why those who use pirated codes are os hard to track down, unless they foolishly admit it.

Back to the bar...
LifeKnight netralizes the Ice Cube and throws SuperNova into the boiling hot tub.

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SuperNova finds the hot tub very relaxing and orders an expensive drink in an ornate tiki shaped mug.

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Raistlin impales siMSas on a sharpened breadstick for being a yutz, and orders another beer. As an afterthought, he adds such breadsticks to the menu.
-- Sharpened Breadsticks --
A 2-ft length of bread with a point at either end, usable for eating or killing, depending.
2 GP, or currency of equivalent value.
Yippee.

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All hail Hikari, Golden Goddess of Light!
Rock: Hi Forte, nice to see you again! Forte: SUFFER!

Arianne destroys the breadsticks in the fireplace before anyone realises how sharp and stake-like they are.

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Spazzy: what you say is not quite true. Even if a license code is out of date, the pirate could set their computer clock back and the reg. app would have no way of knowing. Ambrosia codes are valid for one month, then they have to be renewed. A pirate who has an outdated code for a product simply has to try setting his clock to every month since the product was released. Eventually they will come across the right one. This is why those who use pirated codes are os hard to track down, unless they foolishly admit it.
(/B)

fortunately though, many of them don't know that or how to do it.

Edit also, I dont think that works. I have retained my license codes for EVN (this is before I knew they were timed things) and when I switched drives cause one died I tried setting the clock back so I wouldn't have to wait to get a new code. I believe the way the bit that says this person has registered tracks time is more complicated than that.

Spazz decides to celebrate the 35 page by ordering and drinking 35 barqs rootbeers. Afterwards, he finds his gold pouch mysteriously empty.

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(This message has been edited by Spazzybob (edited 03-27-2004).)

Ambrosia has recently installed a new code system that makes it harder to forge (heh, forge) dates. It doesn't take much to crack, however. I have actually tried (and suceeded) in this myself, on my legally registered copy of PoG.

BACK TO THE BAR ALREADY! ENOUGH WITH THE WAREZ!!!1!

LifeKnight uses the time poral and heads for Boozerama.

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Spazz decides to phase himself out of reality, temporarily. He goes and buys two dozen crispry kreme donuts and eats EVERY LAST ONE. The sugar overload cause his personal time to speed up untill he phases out because of relativity.

(apologies to Greg Dean (for blatantly copying this from one of his strips), RealLifeComics which you will all go read, NOW)

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"Hey, do you think this bar regenerates like the BB?"

LifeKnight uses dynamite to test this.

(insert deafening boom here)

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The damaged portion of the bar slowly heals back, pointedly sealing itself over LK as it goes. Raistlin orders another beer.

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All hail Hikari, Golden Goddess of Light!
Rock: Hi Forte, nice to see you again! Forte: SUFFER!

Spazz shoots supernova.

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(This message has been edited by LifeKnight (edited 04-03-2004).)

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Originally posted by Spazzybob:
**Spazz shoots supernova.

**

That must be why I've been feeling sore all weekend.

Or perhaps it was because of something that I talked about on my (url="http://"http://blog.evula.net/SuperNova/")blog(/url).

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While Rawzer is not looking, LK beats down the no magic sign, and the anti-magic barrier in the time portal goes down temporarily. LifeKnight casts Fiery Blasts at SuperNova for advertising his blog.

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SuperNova had secretly brought over some wall rings from Final Fantasy. LifeKnight's magic is reflected back to him.

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Rawzer puts the No Magic* sign back up, and creates a magical barrier around it. One that can only be intercepted by magics.

*Except me.

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Spazz shoots supernova again. No FF in the ambrosia boards!

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LifeKnight is rather disappointed at what this bar has become. SlaVitiCkus is gone, Thunderforge is gone, LabRat is gone, and we don't have the usual ACTION like we once did, the action that reigns supreme at the Boozerama Bar.

LifeKnight throws darts at RAWZER.

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But didn't we hate LabRat?
Raistlin orders another beer.

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All hail Hikari, Golden Goddess of Light!
Rock: Hi Forte, nice to see you again! Forte: SUFFER!

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Originally posted by Raistlin Majere:
**But didn't we hate LabRat?
Raistlin orders another beer.

**

Who the hell cares? He was here, he was a member, and he fooled with magic. I liked him.
OMG WTF LOL!!!1!

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