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Originally Posted by Karaoke Kelley
Got this from another thread but I am going to hire help but dont want them stealing my kma files Anyone have any recent news about this? Thanks
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Originally posted by quaizywabbit
Is it possible to have the drive(s) encrypted to be used only with hoster, yet have an owner password to allow it's use on another hoster computer owned by the same company? In a sense it's kinda like having universal spare parts in inventory(interchangeability), so I'd need less of them.
It should not be a user entered password, but automatically detected. I suppose for that kind of scheme to work there would need a way for the owner to "tie" these computer's to a common
encryption scheme, perhaps during registration of each Hoster install.
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You have no idea how hard it is to modify the Registration Security. It has taken us 5 years to get where we are today. 
No, we won't consider protecting a hard drive. There is no way that we are aware of to prevent Windows Explorer from copying the songs off the "protected drive".
dlessnau, we are working on a command you will be able to execute to encrypt all your songs to play only on that Hoster. No quaizywabbit, once they are encrypted, they will ONLY run on that Hoster RegCode. That's the only way we can truly offer protection. I expect this to be in Hoster 2.3, which will be a free upgrade to those who have upgraded to 2.124. We should start beta testing 2.201 this or next week.
However, in 2.124, we now allow you to install Hoster on a backup computer if your show computer fails. Thus, the same encrypted songs (when we offer this) will run on the backup also. However.... this is your backup means in the event your show computer fails, NOT to run a second show with. 
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If we finished the development, we would need to collect - and somehow pay to someone - a royalty for each system we allowed your encrypted songs to run on. There is no method to allow us to pay, and the task of identifying all your songs is daunting.
We have the core technology already developed (tested with Rick Priddis before his Co. went under). You would buy a "Song Code" for $1, and we would then sell you a program that would encrypt all your songs on a given Hard Drive to only run on a computer with that "Song Code". We would allow you to come back and pay a royalty fee (unknown how much or paid to whom
) to install the same song code on a second, third, etc. computer for use at shows.
Not an easy task, not a cheap solution. 