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Re: Matchlock protection schemes

on 5/28/02 6:35 PM, Tom Beckenham at email@hidden wrote:

> I've been following this thread, as I've been looking at ways to protect our
> own software. I can't believe so many people prefer dongles. Most of our
> users hate dongles.

Don't get me wrong, I do HATE Dongles. I just hate Matchlock more...

> As a developer, it's a real pain to have to go back after writing a piece of
> software and implement systems to stop people pirating it.

Some people will always pirate software. I'm sure there are ways around
Matchlock.

It's a pretty vertical software product. I doubt many users would pirate it.
But the big thing is to have protection (like a serial number) that offers
some level of protection but doesn't make a huge hassle for the user (which
Matchlock does).

At least with a Dongle, I can take it with me and I know I can run the
software from virtually anywhere.

Andrew Rodney
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