Software licensing using IPv6 addresses?

[Jay Hennigan]

On 10/17/11 2:06 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I remember that some software licenses used to be enforced by relying
> on the user's static IPv4 address. Obviously this is a broken technique,
> but has anybody seen it used with IPv6 addresses?

It indeed is/was a broken technique with IPv4.  It will just as broken
(or perhaps several trillion times more broken) if attempted with IPv6.

Hopefully the people who attempted this with IPv4 have either gone out
of business or moved on to something different.

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