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Re: Arranging free trials for online services.

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On Tue, 04 Dec 2012 16:02:10 +0100, Daniele Futtorovic
<da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> wrote, quoted or indirectly
quoted someone who said :

>I'm not enthused, to say the least, by your suggestion to fix certain
>people's business model by an invasion of everyone's privacy -- not to
>mention the inevitable statist structure which maintaining such a scheme
>would require.

I had another idea I sent to Thawte, basically using code signing
certs as id.  You don't put yourself at any financial risk and you
don't divulge anything of value.

The service they are trying to protect is in the  order of $200 a
year, well worth some cheating. How can they offer a limited time free
trial without giving away the farm?

What is being used now is requiring a credit card number, something I
find unacceptable. I won't even do that when I buy something. It is
like handing over  pile of blank cheques.
-- 
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com
Students who hire or con others to do their homework are as foolish 
as couch potatoes who hire others to go to the gym for them. 

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Arranging free trials for online services. Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-12-03 10:45 -0800
  Re: Arranging free trials for online services. Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-12-03 10:53 -0800
  Re: Arranging free trials for online services. Leif Roar Moldskred <leifm@dimnakorr.com> - 2012-12-03 14:06 -0600
  Re: Arranging free trials for online services. Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-12-03 22:22 -0500
  Re: Arranging free trials for online services. Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-12-04 16:02 +0100
    Re: Arranging free trials for online services. Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-12-04 18:06 -0800
      Re: Arranging free trials for online services. Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-12-05 10:39 -0800
        Re: Arranging free trials for online services. Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-12-05 14:27 -0800
      Re: Arranging free trials for online services. Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-12-06 00:18 +0100
  Re: Arranging free trials for online services. "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2012-12-04 18:31 +0000
    Re: Arranging free trials for online services. Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-12-04 12:59 -0800
    Re: Arranging free trials for online services. Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-12-04 18:02 -0800
      Re: Arranging free trials for online services. "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2012-12-15 12:24 +0000
    Re: Arranging free trials for online services. Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2012-12-13 09:01 -0800
  Re: Arranging free trials for online services. Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2012-12-06 11:01 -0600
    Re: Arranging free trials for online services. Leif Roar Moldskred <leifm@dimnakorr.com> - 2012-12-06 11:50 -0600
      Re: Arranging free trials for online services. Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-12-06 10:49 -0800

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