As Aaron's experience demonstrates, you can only slow down the crackers
a little. The factors that make the most difference in whether or not
people buy your software are 1) the quality of the software, and 2) the
quality of the people who are interested in obtaining your software.
Joe Malone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:95359@palm-dev-
forum:
--- Todd Walk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One thing you should not do is make the demo and release
versions the same, with just needing a code to activate it.
If you do this, then someone can crack your program the
same
So, your motivation for writing and selling software is to get just 1
person to pay for it? Your unit price must be very high! (Smiley face
omitted, because it won't help if you don't already see this as
humorous.)
Yup, that single $10 registration is my entire goal :-).
(My full
Aaron Ardiri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in
news:95381@palm-dev-forum:
Yup, that single $10 registration is my entire goal :-).
(My full time job is actually in EDA, and the full price of the
product I work on is $115K a copy!)
heh.. $115? a vertical market application i am working on is
Hi everybody,
I've been unluckily trying to find out some information about the issue in
archives. The issue is reasonable and reliable copy protection approach or
trick. Our application is to be protected from illegal copying, and I am
looking for a programming method to secure our copyright.
--- Alexandre Kazantsev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The issue is reasonable and reliable copy protection
approach or trick. Our application is to be protected from
illegal copying, and I am looking for a programming method
to secure our copyright.
Any copy prevention you create can be
serial number scheme.
YMMV,
Keith M
- Original Message -
From: Joe Malone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Palm Developer Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 8:20 AM
Subject: Re: Application copy protection
--- Alexandre Kazantsev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The issue
Keep in mind that users also have fair use rights. Too often copy
protection becomes copy prevention, much as the digital rights
managemernt buzzword is often implemented more along the lines of
digital rights denial.
well, its professional suicide if you annoy your users :) hehe
What
Aaron,
you could still grab it using screen copy in POSE :-)
Henk
Aaron Ardiri wrote:
we (mobilewizardry) are using encryption etc not to protect the
applications these days, but, to prevent other developers stealing
code/graphics from us :) [not that i expect it to happen, but, you
never
Why not issue a key which is some hash of the device serial number.
The user enters it in once and the application stores it as a 'feature'.
Each time the app runs, it checks for the presence of the key, and checks if
it is valid against the devices serial number.
This way, the user only has to
Kristian,
The only way this can be broken is if someone dissassembles your app,
locates the hashing code and discovers your hashing algorithm.
Not so. Go back and read Keith's post, and Aaron's white paper linked in Joe's
message. You *don't* need to discover the hasing algorithm. You just
One thing you should not do is make the demo and release
versions the same, with just needing a code to activate it.
If you do this, then someone can crack your program the
same day. If the demo and release are different, then
at least one person has to pay up.
Aaron has mentioned before his
--- Todd Walk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One thing you should not do is make the demo and release
versions the same, with just needing a code to activate it.
If you do this, then someone can crack your program the
same day. If the demo and release are different, then
at least one person
.
Is it correct? Intersting and surprising
Regards
Bn
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joe Malone
Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 11:48 AM
To: Palm Developer Forum
Subject: Re: Application copy protection
--- Todd Walk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One
14 matches
Mail list logo
