Program requiring activation on a new computer

Back in the early days of PCs, I was a member of a Commodore User Group. Any problems like this were handed to a 14 year old who stuck the disk in the computer and read it at the machine code level. He's spot where registration required and patch the code around it so that the install wouldn't stop to ask for those details. Problem solved. All you need is a 14 year old nerd that knows how to code.