Re: cracking site - how do we shut it down?

[Jean Cyr]

At 06:33 PM 6/9/99, you wrote:
>A modest proposal:
>
>Just get rid of your copy protection entirely.
>
>1) you waste less time writing stuff that crackers will just break
>2) your users don't have to mess with registration codes
>
>
>If you want to help keep people honest, use social pressure.  Add the owner
>name into the code at install or first launch, then display it at startup.
>
>1) Because it doesn't disable the software, there's no incentive for
>crackers to crack that.
>2) it adds a guilt trip and an audit trail.
>
>                                 --Bob
>

Been there, tried that. It doesn't work!