Re: Help with Copy Protection

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From: Casey Charlton
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 1995 08:55

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ian_stewart@nyro.com (Ian H. Stewart) wrote:

>I am looking to have developed or
>get a commercial product that will help
>me protect and distribute a new windows 95
>utility.
>I want easy to enter license strings (keys)
>that license the app to a single system,
>but if moved becomes a demo version.
>Stimalatious network licenses would
>be a plus.
>Time bombs must be available also.
>
>Any comments appreciated.
>
>Ian

Well, the best comment that I can make is that 'Time Bombs' are
generally considered bad, and I think recently in the UK they were
also declared to be ILLEGAL in a court case.

My view on copy protection is that you will always get some piracy,
whatever method you use. If your software is good enough then people
will pay for it, otherwise they will copy it. Make your software so
good that people will feel guilty about using it without paying!

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