MTU has been working towards a program called CRYPTO(tm) for several years. We have the technology right now to do this, but Vista has taken all our time this year.
1. It would lock all your KMA files to a SongCode installed on THAT computer. A SongCode would be like our Registration Codes to unlock our software. They would only install on probably ONE computer, and you, the owner would be the only one who could install and register it, and only when bought through your MTU Store account. We have done a lot of thinking and coding for this, and it WOULD BE absolutely protected. No one would ever use your encrypted KMA files, except... on the computer that SongCode is installed on... i.e., they'd have to steal the entire computer to use these encrypted KMA files.
2. We could require a SongCode to "re-register" at the mtu.com web site every 3-4 months to continue running, with significant warnings that time is running out so you'd never have it shut down on you. Once the 4 months was reached, it would cease to run. As soon as the computer was on-line, the SongCode would automatically re-register when Hoster ran. This way, if they steal the computer, it will stop running within 3-4 months. Since we can disable a RegCode (or SongCode), preventing it from being installed (or from continuing to run in the case of a SongCode), we could terminate the thief's use of the equipment.
3. You would need a "universal" backup of your un-encrypted master KMA files to create a new "locked" version.
4. We would modify Hoster to use the encrypted files using the SongCode for part of the decription (we go WAY WAY WAY beyond simple encryption
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5. This would absolutely prevent someone from USING your KMA files from a CRYPTO + Hoster system.
6. MTU's Songverter software would NOT recognize the encrypted KMA files, and neither would any other converter that ever appears on the market.
We would need to sell CRYPTO for at least $250. It could run on ALL computers you have bought and installed YOUR Hoster RegCodes on, and yes, it would require the computers to be on-line to run CRYPTO, but not to run Hoster.
There is a very limited market for this technology, and it will be expensive to develop and test. Each SongCode would have to be purchased... I don't know the price we'd charge per use, but it must be reasonable or you won't buy it.
Who is interested and willing to pay this? 