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[Darksong]

...that doesn't mean there are rules for it.

Or, rather, there are, but not at character generation.

If this has already been raised, my apologies, I searched, but it's been a number of years since I've posted here, and my initial search turned up very little.

Basically, I am curious how you all handle multiple copies of the same program for starting characters. According to the rules (which I do not have in front of me) it is possible to crack copy-protection, but piracy is the rule, as most have been cracked. Moreover, our friendly BBB states that most hackers write their own code, which would certainly be copyable for the author.

Unfortunately, this seems to be an all-or-nothing situation. Either you have one copy, or you have infinity copies, which can be a problem once you are talking about Agents/Pilots/etc and drone riggers. The solution we came up with was to allow a starting character to have any program up to her software rating as open source (she either wrote it herself or cracked it) or allow her to pay double to have a program higher than her software skill open source.

Or maybe I'm overthinking this.