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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: 2, Interesting) by Konomi on Friday March 21 2014, @11:06PM

    by Konomi (189) on Friday March 21 2014, @11:06PM (#19585)

    You can't, anything you do will lose you more customers due to frustration. I have dumped many software projects that make things harder. If you want to stay with a pay me for the compiled binaries model, I recommend appealing to peoples generosity and trying to bother them as little as possible.

    Or just switch to a better model for your software to make money...

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