Re: Daft idea for commercial software ???

2010-03-30 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 30/03/2010 22:34, J. Landman Gay wrote: Björnke von Gierke wrote: Be aware that changing a single occuring string in your app to "hacked by l33t dude" is actually simpler then reverse engineering the registration code. Will that work with Rev apps? In my experience, changing almost anyth

Re: Daft idea for commercial software ???

2010-03-30 Thread J. Landman Gay
Björnke von Gierke wrote: Be aware that changing a single occuring string in your app to "hacked by l33t dude" is actually simpler then reverse engineering the registration code. Will that work with Rev apps? In my experience, changing almost anything in the compiled app causes it to fail to

Re: Daft idea for commercial software ???

2010-03-30 Thread Neal Campbell
While I adhere to the private key generated from Customer data model, I have seen a different paradigm in my market space which is password protecting the download directory of the fully-enabled version. If the end-user posts the installer someplace, the software becomes free but oddly enough it do

Re: Daft idea for commercial software ???

2010-03-30 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Actually most Reg-Key schemes work exactly like that. The Name or email of the person buying is encoded in some way within the key, or via a reference in a database. Therefore the ID is tied uniquely to that customer. Of course you could mail around the program, but that won't help at all agains

Daft idea for commercial software ???

2010-03-29 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I have been thinking about all the cafuffle about registration numbers and so forth; and wonder, given the fact that some level of pirating will go on if a piece of software is worth anything, if it is really worth all the mucking around. So: I should like to float this idea and welcome all r