- …cutoff.
- This was
an attempt to reduce the number of non-hardware-locked
domestic U.S. AutoCADs being exported into markets where
piracy was rampant. The idea was that we included
something like DES encryption of the database as an option,
it would be, potentially, a criminal act to export AutoCAD
from the U.S., and this might act as a deterrent. In all,
probably a dumb idea.