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<title>Twisted Matrix Labs Software Registration</title>
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<h1>How to Register your Twisted Daemon instance</h1>
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<p>The Business Software Alliance may have put it best, in
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href="http://www.bsa.org/usa/antipiracy/">anti-piracy</a>:</p>
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"Software is one of the most valuable technologies of the
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Information Age, running everything from PCs to the Internet.
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Unfortunately, because software is so valuable, and because
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computers make it easy to create an exact copy of a program
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in seconds, software piracy is widespread. From individual
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computer users to professionals who deal wholesale in stolen
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software, piracy exists in homes, schools, businesses and
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government. Software pirates not only steal from the
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companies that make the software, but with less money for
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research and development of new software, all users are hurt.
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That's why all software piracy - even one copy you make for a
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<p>Software piracy is a serious crime, and one that the Open
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Source community has been remarkably lax in pursuing and
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protecting against. This is why Twisted Matrix Laboratories is
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taking the forefront in Open Source software registration
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<h2>The Twisted Solution</h2>
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<p>In order to do your part to prevent the tragedy of
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unregistered, unlicensed software, all you need to do is visit
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<a href="http://www.twistedmatrix.com/license">the Twisted
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Matrix Labs Licensing and Registration page</a>, and enter your
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user information to obtain a license key. You can provide us
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with as much or as little information as you like!</p>
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<p>This will produce a plain-text file which you should save as
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"twisted-registration" (no quotes, no extension) and drop into
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the same folder where you run your <code>twistd</code> server.
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It will be automatically recognized by the server upon
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<h2>Other Benefits to You, the User</h2>
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<p>Besides providing you with a license for the use of your
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Twisted Daemon, a Twisted registration file also provides you
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with a probably-unique identifier for your Twisted process -- a
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helpful tool in writing peer-to-peer applications, or assigning
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distributed database keys. <b>Privacy is important to us, and
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this ID is <i>never</i> used by Twisted Matrix Labs software
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for tracking purposes.</b> You need only register once, rather
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than renegotiating unique IDs upon every run of your peered
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<p>Registering with a valid e-mail address also gives Twisted
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Matrix Labs a way to contact you with information about
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upgrades and services as they become available. (Again,
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registering with an e-mail address is <em>strictly
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optional</em> to obtain your license key. If you don't want to
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receive this information, you don't have to!)</p>
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<p>Thank you for doing your part to end the piracy crisis.</p>