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Re: Matchlock protection schemes

What we were thinking was to have a serial that works anywhere (no
per-machine locking), but when the user enters the serial number, the
software would connect to our server and log the user's Ethernet hardware
address. This way we could track how many people were using the one number.
It would only connect once when entering the serial, so you would only have
to be on the net the first time you run. If we found that a serial was used
many times we could then contact the user. This would allow us to make a
judgment call if we thought our product was being pirated.

However, we wouldn't be shipping a fully functional demo. This would prevent
hackers turning a demo into a full product. They would actually have to buy
one copy before looking at it.

Comments?

on 29/5/02 10:55, Andrew Rodney at email@hidden wrote:

> 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).
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