The more people that use your software, the more people have expertise in operating your software. Lastly, as strange as this may sound, individual piracy (not corporate) isn't such a bad thing.
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That, along with a fair price, is the best software protection you can get. Invest the time and effort you'd put in protection schemes to making the software better. Very often, protection schemes create more problems for the legitimate users than they do for those who use pirated copies. These days, Delphi has protection mechanisms like those you are mentioning yet, has only a shadow of the market share Turbo products had (which forces the company to increase the price. Those that haven't are simply for products most people are not interested in.Īnother thing you should consider is, Borland (way back) made plenty of money selling Turbo Pascal and early Delphi versions which had no protection at all, yet people purchased their products because they were good products at a reasonable price. Hardware keys, such as usb (and parallel port) keys have also been defeated. Same for Autodesk AutoCAD in a long long list of such products. For instance, Adobe has a mixed, complicated and convoluted protection scheme for their suite, yet every one of their attempts at protecting their software has been defeated. It only depends on the talent and interest of the individual considering defeating it. What I'm going to say doesn't really answer any of your questions but, hopefully, it will give you something to think about.Īny protection scheme, no matter how sophisticated can be defeated. We hacked that, but never used the hack: we reported the vulnerability. Anyway: you could in our case not run more than 20, later 50 active licensed instances of their software at a time (Enterprise and Architect). I do not know if that still works like that. Not ideal for some applications.Īn example of this is how Borland/Inprise used to handle volume licenses for their most expensive suites. High volume software needs that too, but for such software Lockbox can prevent some but not all obvious copying/piracy.Īs an intermediate solution I used to have part of the functionality of certain software running on servers - maybe an intranet -, which demands that the software is on-line.
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Unique, specialized, low volume software is better protected by just lawyers: license, contracts. It is always a trade-off between value and volume:
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Lockbox protects only against script kiddies, not against determined professional hackers. Note the best protection is simply a license and lawyers. There's also libdiscover, which is similar. I believe I have a h2pas generated interface unit somewhere for it, but did not use it for years. Under Linux it is easier and it can be read from one of the device files or you can use libhd21 and libhd-dev (hwinfo uses that). I have patched in this code by Jeroen Pluimers myself. No, it is still a not implemented prototype.