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