Software licensing using IPv6 addresses?

[james machado]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Jay Hennigan <jay at west.net> wrote:
> 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.
>

and let us not forget those that license on the # of ip addresses (in
use or available)
or the # of subnets at a location(s).

i can just see the quote for someone selling ip management
software.... "Yes sir, that will be
64 Trillion for the small business license"

james