There are ways to limit that, however. For one just simply DONT have your program in fully functional mode on the market as shareware. Have a very limited program on the market as shareware. It makes *paying* more lucrative, if your product is okay. Don't bother with keygens. Just make people have to order it directly from your web site.
next, everyone do your part in scaring people who deal in palm software piracy. When you see pirated palm software.. scare the guy hosting it. Be creative. ;p And finally, the most lucrative part of selling palm software is not offering it the general public, but making software for a particular sector of a particular field (or just something useful for a particular field)... and such places will pirate your $50 app much much less. You could also try to set up something on the installation so that the program can't be beamed from palm to palm, and don't leave a copy of the PRC on the desktop during installation. Once it's on the palm get rid of it, and if they re-need it they come back to your web site and you verify them through real purchase records as a buyer =D -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joe Programmer Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2001 4:18 PM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: Re: Piracy --- Max Bian wrote: > I found it will be very difficult to deal with > cracker who modify the application to make it > full-functional. So I decided the only hole > I can plug is to make the key-gen very > difficult if not possible. To do that, > asymetrical-key encryption (eg. RSA) is a way > to go. But at some point, your app is going to have to do if (validKeyEntered) // do program else // refuse to do program and all the crackers have to do is insert a NOP in place of the if. You can read all about why it's a waste of time to try to make your app uncrackable in a paper Aaron Ardiri wrote. Search the archives -- a link to it is in there somewhere. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/ -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/
