On Sep 28, 2004, at 11:01 AM, GAmoore at aol dot com wrote:
Well I was in a coffee shop using Maple (math software) on my laptop,
and some 19 y.o. kid comes up and wants to know what I am doing cuz it
looks cool. I didn't expect he had heard of Maple since even my
calculus students have never heard of it. But he said he not only knew
it but had a copy plus copies of Photoshop and .....(long list)....
and he would be happy to share his warez. It seems like there is some
sort of piracy underground network. I am amazed that not one but all
of these famous programs can be broken and pirated, and I wonder what
the financial incentive is. I guess you can pickup a cracked Photoshop
on the strees of Moscow or Bejieng for $2 or something.
Here is an article about REALbasic software protection which you might
find interesting... this was origianlly posted on the NUG a few years
ago, but lives on at ResExcellence (April 25, 2002):
http://www.resexcellence.com/realbasic/articles/2002/04-25-02/
index.shtml
There are a lot of things that you can do as developers to keep track
of software licenses.
For example, one of the things that I have implemented for my betas is
that they will check my website for updates every 7 days. If they were
licensed copies instead of betas, they *could* also post the serial
number (using the HTTPSocket headers) and the serial number including
the IP address would be included on the server logs. Since people can
legitimately have multiple, IP addresses (home/work) Since I have
programmed the app to only check once every 7 days, excessive checks
for updates with the same serial number would raise a RED FLAG -- which
would most likely be caused because the purchaser shared his key code
with others. There is nothing that I would/could do about current
copies installed, but I would immediately post a new installer/app on
the website with that key code blacklisted.
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