Look at the lengths game publishers are starting to go thru to
protect their work! Games like Half-Life 2 which require hooking up online
so that your membership and registration data which was hard-coded into the
download required by the original install can be checked each time! At
first this was resisted by the masses but now it's quite acceptable and more
and more companies are using similar methods, like making you buy nothing
more than a key and registration disc which in turn allows you to set up a
pay by net account thru which you purchase installments of the game as you
need or want them. I expect this could be the future for all application
types no matter their size or importance. Everybody will be hooked up to
broadband wireless anyway, so it won't really be any kind of imposition to
the user. Companies like Essellerate will provide packages that wrap your
app in all the necessary functionality including payment variations, and
we'll all have accounts much like Paypal provides now except that they'll
work in both directions. So just wait a few years and you won't have to
worry about it any longer! <g>
from Robert Meek dba Tangentals Design CCopyright 2006
"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion
that the gift of Fantasy has meant more to me then my talent for absorbing
positive knowledge!"
Albert Einstein
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Human
Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2006 12:59 PM
To: Delphi-Talk Discussion List
Subject: RE: Writing to registry under a limited account (Windows 2000/XP)
I've found ways to implement very complex mathematical algorithms in my
program and I can't find a
good way to protect it.
:)
Somebody gave me the idea of useing scratched CDs instead of dongles (a
random scratch is unique).
I will look in to this.
--- Robert Meek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That's why I include a hard-coded date in my apps that is looked at
> when registration is not yet completed. Set it for six months or even a
> year and that way they can only re-install so many times without
downloading
> again, because after this date and if it's not already registered it will
> simply terminate itself when run. Of course to make this really work well
> you have to collect info from the user when he or she downloads so that
you
> can check to see if the same people are downloading every six months and
> that's difficult to do if you're putting the app out as shareware around
the
> net.
>
> from Robert Meek dba Tangentals Design CCopyright 2006
>
> "When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion
> that the gift of Fantasy has meant more to me then my talent for absorbing
> positive knowledge!"
> Albert Einstein
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Behalf Of Rob Kennedy
> Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 9:01 AM
> To: Delphi-Talk Discussion List
> Subject: Re: Writing to registry under a limited account (Windows 2000/XP)
>
> Dale Derix wrote:
> > This doesn't work for protection however because all the user has to
> > do once the trial period has ended is create a new user account.
>
> What user is going to bother with the hassle of moving to a different
> account, but not bother with the hassle of just finding and deleting the
> program's "secret" settings?
>
> --
> Rob
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