Hi Hayden, Nothing is "mostly crack proof." That's the entire point of my white paper. Some developers believe that coming up with more and more restrictive licensing systems is the way to crack down on software piracy, but it is a battle they will lose. If someone wants to pirate it bad enough they will. That's a fact of life that every developer needs to accept on some level. I'm not saying that we should make it easy for pirates to pirate the software, but we also need to take in account our honest paying customers too. Usually these restrictive licenses harm the honest paying customer more than the pirates themselves. Pirates have work arounds for restrictive licenses where your honest paying customer does not. They have to suffer the results of a hardware based license key system which is something of a punishment for paying for the software rather than a reward. One common mistake we often make is we look to this or that security system and say this is "mostly crack proof." For example, a few months back, before I converted to C++, I was looking at purchasing a very well known licensing API for my Genesis Engine. However, rather than accepting all the good reviews I decided to look for some negative reviews, and if there were any well known security issues. Turns out there were some extremely negative reviews, and well known technical and security issues involved with that API. When I asked the company about it the denied it outright. I had expected them to say that those problems had been addressed, fixed, whatever but they denied they ever existed. Given what I had read somebody was lying, and I wasn't willing to take the companies word on the matter given the cost I was going to have to fork over to buy their API. Of course, it is always possible the negative reviews I had read were false, but there is likely some truth to the number of reviews says don't buy software x because of reason x.
On 6/20/10, Hayden Presley <hdpres...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi Thomas, > That's a good point when it comes to registration systems. There's really no > point with going with anyone more exasperating? Then a name based system. > The only time I can see that as a good move is if you actually found a > mostly crack proof version, similar to Jason's system for Entombed. (though, > correct me) > Best Reagrds, > Hayden --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
