>Just get rid of your copy protection entirely.
If you do that, you may loose money even from potential 'honest' customers.
I read an informal study were a developer released two separate versions of
the same product. One required a registration key, the other did not. He
saw a significant difference in the number of registered users for the
version that required a key. The moral of his experiment was that some
protection is better (and more profitable) than none.
I feel if a few individuals take it upon themselves to break the law and
crack my software, let them but you must attack them legally whenever
possible (to maintain your copyright).
I'd rather have some minimal protection to entice honest users to register.
Putting too strong of protection in your apps tends invite crackers. So far
I have not included any software protection in any of my apps, but I have an
advantage over the average Palm developer. My software is not fully
functional without my hardware attached.
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Ebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 9:35 PM
Subject: Re: cracking site - how do we shut it down?
>A modest proposal:
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>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
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>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
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