hoster disc id#

[George]

Danny, I may have stated my post wrong, as I think they have this covered using ethernet so you can run from, say a laptop in the field, with the main program on a desktop pc at home. Think I'm rapidly losing sight of what the question even was regarding customer#..Isn't that the same as Hoster's unique ID #, or have I taken a wrong turn somewhere

[danny_g]

I believe what I am referring to happens to be like the email address used to register Microstudio, Keyrite, Vogone and Home Producer. I admit not knowing anything fully about hoster other than the specs I have read and Admin's posts on the subject and I am taking those as gospel over other posts as I don't own it but will be considering it in the future- right now I can't afford the cost of it. I will restrain my post from now on in the hoster area to just suggestions rather than try to correct other posts that differ from what I have read from the "official" Sources. I wish I had the money to purchase the Hoster computer as my computer that I built basically is good for just Home parties- too much to carry in my car and I don't have room for 2 monitors- one for the computer and one for the singer.

[kedmison]

Once my laptop and Hoster arrive, I am giving consideration to going with a thin flat monitor to be used for my singers instead of my current 13" TV monitor. Yes I know this will be more expensive but I am looking at my total package as far as lighter weight. My question is this...some monitors have to be viewed staright on; which as we now isn't best for Karaoke. Am I to assume that all LCD screens can only be viewed straight on or is there a particular model of thin flat screen thast I should look for?

Appreciate any input.

Kelly

[George]

Danny,
Sorry, I assumed you had been through the Hoster installation routine.

The first step in installation is to execute the MTUID.EXE program. This [ADMIN NOTE: this reads the MACID from your Ethernet Card] reads an ID number from the computer. Then you email that ID number to MTU and they send you the Serial Number to install and run Hoster. The program will install only on the pc that was assigned the ID#. Hope this helps better answer your question.

Take care,

George

[admin]

Hoster is different from all our other program's security. It uses the unique ID code from your Ethernet Network card. If you don't have one in your computer, we offer a USB one that can plug in. Also, this can be moved to another computer, allowing you to run Hoster on more than one computer, but only run on the one where the USB card is connected to. The SERIAL NUMBER we generate based on the Ethernet ID code is absoutely unique and the tightest protection that is available across all computers.

We have not embedded the Serial Number into imported KMA files. We have seriously considered this, but it is so very trivial to remove this that it would be broken by even moder cracker/hackers within days. There are DRM (Digital Resource Managment) methods being derrived (including Microsoft) that we could support when this evolves. As it is right now, mosts folks understand that if you have 1 disc set, you can't legally run it on 2 computers at the same time. Thus, we have no restrictions and importing KMA files on one computer can be transferred to another. This is a VERY strong selling point to Hosting Companies who are buying 2 or more Hoster systems to run their multiple disc sets they already own. They only need to import the "common disc set" once, and then do a hard disk to hard disk copy to "instantly" set up the other computers.

One addition to George's point above. The Serial Number is used in installing Hoster, but... Hoster also verifies the Serial Number multiple times while Hoster is running. Thus, you can't simply copy an installed Hoster program to another computer.