saying that rampant worldwide piracy of
Windows had greatly helped Microsoft capture the market, because it kept Linux
at bay.
In certain cases, how might a lack of copy protection work as a competitive
tool?
Thanks,
Ted
The Open Source model seems to work: download for free, then donate if yo
Windows had greatly helped Microsoft capture the market, because it kept Linux
at bay.
In certain cases, how might a lack of copy protection work as a competitive
tool?
Thanks,
Ted
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Hi Andres,
thanks for your thoughts
Tiemo
>
> Hello
>
> Within the gaming industry the common point of view is that "All demos
> are hack-able". However, we think this is a mediocre consolation to
> the DRM challenge.
>
> Therefore, contrary to what many developers suggest, we are very
> protect
ur Eric,
yes I understand the sensibility of the subject and I didn't
expected to
find solutions, but thoughts, as yours.
Up to now, I handled my copy protection with the absolute minimum
of work,
with taking a copy protection tool on CD, as I said in my first
post, but I
would like
oblem unless multiplying files in
different places with 'unknown' names :-)
Le 12 août 08 à 17:38, Tiemo Hollmann TB a écrit :
Bonjour Eric,
yes I understand the sensibility of the subject and I didn't
expected to
find solutions, but thoughts, as yours.
Up to now, I handled my
Bonjour Eric,
yes I understand the sensibility of the subject and I didn't expected to
find solutions, but thoughts, as yours.
Up to now, I handled my copy protection with the absolute minimum of work,
with taking a copy protection tool on CD, as I said in my first post, but I
would li
ready discussed a few times, but I didn't found any
"satisfying" answers in the archives.
I am looking for a copy protection / or licensing system with a
minimum on
handling / trouble for me which gives a good protection for the
average
user. No protection against cracks is requi
t; Betreff: Re: OT: copy protection / licensing for Mac?
>
> I believe most of us who develop commercial apps have our own spin on
> how to do this best-- and are certainly reluctant to share our
> techniques in an open list such as this.
>
> That said, for me there are a n
know pirates won't buy your software,
no matter what. So, you don't 'lose' a sale when someone pirates your
software.
That said, the honor system doesn't work either. Asking or reminding
someone to consider purchasing your app just doesn't work anymore.
So for me, the
Hi Richard,
thanks for reminding me, I didn't thought about that. But "Satisfying" would
have been more approaches, which would point into "my" direction (not fixed
solutions)
Thanks
Tiemo
>
> What would be "satisfying"?
>
> You won't find much in the way of actual code published here for this,
>
Tiemo wrote:
this topic is already discussed a few times, but I didn't found any
"satisfying" answers in the archives.
What would be "satisfying"?
You won't find much in the way of actual code published here for this,
since it would make it too easy for crackers to make keygens.
--
Richard
Hi Björnke,
your three are just the points, I am calculating too. Thats why I used up to
now the ProtectCD lock, which is without any implementation from my side,
pretty errorless (less than 0,5% support cases), not to be copied for the
standard user and in my case no disturbing for having the CD i
Hi Terry,
I will have a look for SecuROM, probably I have to find a new "burning
factory" (how do you call this in English?) how works with SecuROM
Thanks for the hint
Tiemo
>
> I'm almost certain SecuROM is cross-platform. We delivered a couple of
> educational products using it (the clients,
Hi Mark,
>
> For a real hacker, not the quantity but the challenge counts.
>
;)
>
> I created a few installers for clients of mine, some with limited copy
> protection. You might use the CD serial number incombination with the
> MAC address of a network device. You can
On 8 Aug 2008, at 11:50, Terry Judd wrote:
I'm almost certain SecuROM is cross-platform.
The problem with most "Security" systems you can buy is that they
often cause instabilities, slowdowns and malfunctions on your
customers pc's, and you'll be unable to rectify them. As these systems
#x27;t found any
> "satisfying" answers in the archives.
>
> I am looking for a copy protection / or licensing system with a minimum on
> handling / trouble for me which gives a good protection for the average
> user. No protection against cracks is required, because the
Hi Tiemo,
For a real hacker, not the quantity but the challenge counts.
I created a few installers for clients of mine, some with limited copy
protection. You might use the CD serial number incombination with the
MAC address of a network device. You can put a few PHP or Perl scripts
on a
Hello,
this topic is already discussed a few times, but I didn't found any
"satisfying" answers in the archives.
I am looking for a copy protection / or licensing system with a minimum on
handling / trouble for me which gives a good protection for the average
user. No protection
Well, according to their documentation the executable is modified somehow
(there is a desktop tool available for modifying Windows executables but
you
have to send Mac apps away to some dudes in Austria), which is why I'm
curious.
You'll have to experiment. I've had zero success wrapping Re
>> The SecuROM copy protection has been requested by a client so that's the
>> way
>> we have to go. We've used SecuROM with Director applications before
>> without
>> any problems but they (Director apps) are 'officially' supported within
>&g
Original Message -
The SecuROM copy protection has been requested by a client so that's the
way
we have to go. We've used SecuROM with Director applications before
without
any problems but they (Director apps) are 'officially' supported within
the
encryptio
a follow-up that takes it a bit further in the future.
>
> Scott Kane
Hi Scott,
The SecuROM copy protection has been requested by a client so that's the way
we have to go. We've used SecuROM with Director applications before without
any problems but they (Director apps) are 'offic
Does anyone have any experience of employing Rev executables on CDs
protected with Sony's SecuROM process - i.e. Does it work?
No direct experience. However a quick Google search reveals that (I'm not
going to post the Google search for obvious reasons) that it's no more
secure than any ot
Does anyone have any experience of employing Rev executables on CDs
protected with Sony's SecuROM process - i.e. Does it work?
Regards,
Terry...
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On Apr 3, 2007, at 2:34 AM, Viktoras Didziulis wrote:
Exactly. Can somebody share a few tricks to make content on a CD being
unusable after being copied? Its a small niche soft (specialized
biodiversity database and an e-book). Likely there will be no
attempts to
crack it, however we would li
Exactly. Can somebody share a few tricks to make content on a CD being
unusable after being copied? Its a small niche soft (specialized
biodiversity database and an e-book). Likely there will be no attempts to
crack it, however we would like to be able to sell at least 200 copies of
the CD before i
On Apr 2, 2007, at 6:13 AM, Viktoras Didziulis wrote:
Hi,
what tricks do you usually use to tie an application to a CD to
prevent it
from being copied ? Are there any "native" tricks that can be
implemented in
Rev? No extremely strong protection is required, just to prevent
ordinary
users
Viktoras Didziulis wrote:
what tricks do you usually use to tie an application to a CD to prevent it
from being copied ? Are there any "native" tricks that can be implemented in
Rev?
Well, I do believe that Sony attempted to use the AutoStart feature of
most systems on a root level in order to
Hi,
what tricks do you usually use to tie an application to a CD to prevent it
from being copied ? Are there any "native" tricks that can be implemented in
Rev? No extremely strong protection is required, just to prevent ordinary
users copying and redistributing a live cd database app until about
On Jan 9, 2005, at 5:33 PM, Byron Turner wrote:
Indeed a loss of only 1/3 doesn't sound too bad, but this was a
special case with great support from the instructor and direct sales
to the students with a discount.. It is also a very short term class
leaving little time for copying between stude
One problem with a discussion of copy protection techniques, is
invariably one wants to 'keep secret' the best techniques and not
publish them to say...a list-group of developers ;-)
That being said, the best copy protection technique we use is auto and
frequent updates from the web. Only re
Indeed a loss of only 1/3 doesn't sound too bad, but this was a special
case with great support from the instructor and direct sales to the
students with a discount.. It is also a very short term class leaving
little time for copying between students. I have great fear of what
will happen in
Dear Byron
First off, I would say that 22 out of a class of 33
isn't bad at all - if most students had decided to
share a copy of your software and work together in
pairs, you might have expected only 50% (or even less
if they worked together in larger study groups).
I have polled this list about
This week we got the results of the first adoption of our flagship
product Created Equal: Sex and Gender. The professor is using it as a
text in a class of 33. Only 22 students bought it. While a couple
students are sharing materials, the rest I fear is theft. In 2 weeks
it will be used in
On Thursday, April 3, 2003, at 10:24 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thank you for your insights. I know it is impossible to prevent
application to be copyed.
I was looking for a "trivial protection", an "unlock code" linked to
the name of the user similar to the unlock code of revolution.
Sugge
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Thank you for your insights. I know it is impossible to prevent application
> to be copyed.
> I was looking for a "trivial protection", an "unlock code" linked to the name
> of the user similar to the unlock code of revolution.
> So, I had my application to register th
f the user in a file, stored in the
preferences folder.
I wondered how lonk my code to the the name of the user.
ChartoNum function wuold be a solution, but is is too trivial, I think.
Ciao Paolo
On Saturday, March 22, 2003, at 11:56 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> How can I add to my application
On Saturday, March 22, 2003, at 11:56 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How can I add to my application a copy protection?
I wuold like to distribute my application freely, but I'd like users
to ask me for a code when thay need to save their files.
Ciao, Paolo Mazza
Protection against copying a
How can I add to my application a copy protection?
I wuold like to distribute my application freely, but I'd like users to ask me for a
code when thay need to save their files.
Ciao, Paolo Mazza
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