If I wanted to prevent someone from purchasing my Windows software and then
giving to friends, I'm wondering what the top 3 or so options are these days
and pros/cons of each.
I appreciate any responses,
Ron
15  4704 
haha, we need to know the natural of your app.
anyway, if you have $$$ to burn, there are few company spec in those
material.
--
cheers,
RL
"Ronald S. Cook" <rc***@westinis .comwrote in message
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If I wanted to prevent someone from purchasing my Windows software and
then giving to friends, I'm wondering what the top 3 or so options are
these days and pros/cons of each.
I appreciate any responses,
Ron
No, I want to code something myself. My Windows app will be published via
ClickOnce. I was just wondering what the most common mecahnisms were these
days.
I was thinking that a user would have to register and be approved on our
site in order to get to the download. But then be issued a key to activate.
But then if they get a new computer and re-install, I guess they'd have to
contact us again for a new key?
We just want to prevent the app from being passed around in the world and
usable. Like I said, I was just looking for the few most common approaches.
Thanks,
Ron
"Egghead" <robertlo@NO_SH AW.CAwrote in message
news:um******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP05.phx.gbl...
haha, we need to know the natural of your app.
anyway, if you have $$$ to burn, there are few company spec in those
material.
--
cheers,
RL
"Ronald S. Cook" <rc***@westinis .comwrote in message
news:Om******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP04.phx.gbl...
>If I wanted to prevent someone from purchasing my Windows software and
then giving to friends, I'm wondering what the top 3 or so options are
these days and pros/cons of each.
I appreciate any responses,
Ron
On Jun 1, 8:23 am, "Ronald S. Cook" <r...@westinis. comwrote:
No, I want to code something myself. My Windows app will be published via
ClickOnce. I was just wondering what the most common mecahnisms were these
days.
I was thinking that a user would have to register and be approved on our
site in order to get to the download. But then be issued a key to activate.
But then if they get a new computer and re-install, I guess they'd have to
contact us again for a new key?
We just want to prevent the app from being passed around in the world and
usable. Like I said, I was just looking for the few most common approaches.
Thanks,
Ron
"Egghead" <robertlo@NO_SH AW.CAwrote in message
news:um******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP05.phx.gbl...
haha, we need to know the natural of your app.
anyway, if you have $$$ to burn, there are few company spec in those
material.
--
cheers,
RL
"Ronald S. Cook" <r...@westinis. comwrote in message
news:Om******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP04.phx.gbl...
If I wanted to prevent someone from purchasing my Windows software and
then giving to friends, I'm wondering what the top 3 or so options are
these days and pros/cons of each.
I appreciate any responses,
Ron- Hide quoted text -
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First, use the 80/20 rule. You're not going to get 100% prevention, so
just try for "casual" prevention. Most people who use a program
without paying for it would either scrap it or pay for it if it was a
little harder to use for free. The diehards who refuse to ever pay for
something will either crack it, find a keygen, or move on.
IMO, the easiest way to get that 80% is to require purchase of a
license key that consists of a registered name and a license number,
with the license number using some kind of hash to ensure that it only
works with that exact registered name. Sure, some people (not Bob)
will still use software that says "registered to Bob Smith", but
they'll be reminded every time they run it that they're being
dishonest. If they're ok with that, as I said before you're not going
to extract cash from them anyway.
If you sure your clients have internet access, why not do what installshield
did?
That is Mickey :)
--
cheers,
RL
"Ronald S. Cook" <rc***@westinis .comwrote in message
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No, I want to code something myself. My Windows app will be published via
ClickOnce. I was just wondering what the most common mecahnisms were
these days.
I was thinking that a user would have to register and be approved on our
site in order to get to the download. But then be issued a key to
activate. But then if they get a new computer and re-install, I guess
they'd have to contact us again for a new key?
We just want to prevent the app from being passed around in the world and
usable. Like I said, I was just looking for the few most common
approaches.
Thanks,
Ron
"Egghead" <robertlo@NO_SH AW.CAwrote in message
news:um******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP05.phx.gbl...
>haha, we need to know the natural of your app.
anyway, if you have $$$ to burn, there are few company spec in those
material.
--
cheers,
RL
"Ronald S. Cook" <rc***@westinis .comwrote in message
news:Om******* *******@TK2MSFT NGP04.phx.gbl.. .
>>If I wanted to prevent someone from purchasing my Windows software and
then giving to friends, I'm wondering what the top 3 or so options are
these days and pros/cons of each.
I appreciate any responses,
Ron
"Ronald S. Cook" <rc***@westinis .comwrote in message
news:Om******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP04.phx.gbl...
If I wanted to prevent someone from purchasing my Windows software and
then giving to friends, I'm wondering what the top 3 or so options are
these days and pros/cons of each.
A good approach is to use an activation server although this requires
internet access but I am guessing that the buyer is purchasing the software
off the internet anyway.
After the purchase the buyer gets a license key that is required to activate
the software. Activation connects to your activation server and only allows
that license to be used once. Use of the same license key can be allowed but
this then deactivates the other installations (assuming that they connect to
the internet while using the software). You would still limit the number of
license changes in a year but this way you are not bothered with users who
have computers that crashed or purchased a new computer.
Have a look at desaware.com. They have something like this I believe.
PS
Ronald S. Cook wrote:
If I wanted to prevent someone from purchasing my Windows software and then
giving to friends, I'm wondering what the top 3 or so options are these days
and pros/cons of each.
If there were a good way, then don't you think Microsoft, IBM,
Oracle etc. would all be using it ?
:-)
You can try with some online registration and serial number
verification.
But I think you should consider whether it is worth the
effort.
Instead you could think if you could change your business
model. Instead of having people pay 5X for the software,
then have them pay X for the software and X per year for updates
and support.
Arne
See http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...etBulletin.doc
JR
"Arne Vajhøj" <ar**@vajhoej.d k???
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Ronald S. Cook wrote:
>If I wanted to prevent someone from purchasing my Windows software and
then giving to friends, I'm wondering what the top 3 or so options are
these days and pros/cons of each.
If there were a good way, then don't you think Microsoft, IBM,
Oracle etc. would all be using it ?
:-)
You can try with some online registration and serial number
verification.
But I think you should consider whether it is worth the
effort.
Instead you could think if you could change your business
model. Instead of having people pay 5X for the software,
then have them pay X for the software and X per year for updates
and support.
Arne
On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 11:29:41 -0700, Arne Vajhøj <ar**@vajhoej.d kwrote:
JR wrote:
>See
http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...etBulletin.doc
See what ?
I think his point is that Microsoft *does* attempt to prevent piracy.
It's debatable as to whether Microsoft's Product Activation "feature" in
Windows and Office actually accomplishes the stated goal. But Microsoft
does try.
Personally, the way I read your post was "there's no good way, so
Microsoft instead uses a bad way". But that's just me. :) someone else
may question why you imply that Microsoft doesn't in fact do exactly what
the OP is asking about.
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