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How Can Software be Protected from Piracy ?

posted by janrinok on Friday March 21 2014, @10:37PM   Printer-friendly
from the questions-without-answers dept.

AnonTechie writes:

"Echoing a question asked on programmers.stackexchange.com - How can software be protected from piracy ?

It just seems a little hard to believe that with all of our technological advances and the billions of dollars spent on engineering the most unbelievable and mind-blowing software, we still have no other means of protecting against piracy than a "serial number/activation key." I'm sure a ton of money, maybe even billions, went into creating Windows 7 or Office and even Snow Leopard, yet I can get it for free in less than 20 minutes. Same for all of Adobe's products, which are probably the easiest. Can there exist a fool-proof and hack-proof method of protecting your software against piracy? If not realistically, could it be theoretically possible? Or no matter what mechanisms these companies deploy, can hackers always find a way around it ?"

 
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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by lhsi on Saturday March 22 2014, @09:11AM

    by lhsi (711) on Saturday March 22 2014, @09:11AM (#19678)

    I've had an overrated mod on a post that was otherwise unrated, which made no sense.

    I think if someone uses most of their mod points on negative mods their moderations should be reviewed to avoid abuses like that. The guidelines say to try to stick to positive mods anyway.

    Starting Score:    1  point
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       Interesting=1, Total=1
    Extra 'Interesting' Modifier   0  
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  
    Total Score:   3  

  • (Score: 1) by el_oscuro on Saturday March 22 2014, @05:55PM

    by el_oscuro (1711) on Saturday March 22 2014, @05:55PM (#19811)

    The same thing happened to me on my first moderated comment on The Other Site, almost 10 years ago. My karma sucked for months afterwards. SN should have a preview button moderation too, as well as a meta moderation system.