Re: Protecting Software w/ Software License Keys...
Re: Protecting Software w/ Software License Keys...
- Subject: Re: Protecting Software w/ Software License Keys...
- From: Joe Morris <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 06:22:27 -0700 (PDT)
I was thinking a good way to do this would be to base it on the user's username. That way other people could copy it relatively easily, but they'd have to create a new account with that username and switch to that to use it, which would be as deterring as anything is likely to get. :-)
Anyone know off the top of their head how to get the current user's username progromatically?
-Joe
On Tuesday, 18, 2002, at 05:15AM, Gideon King <email@hidden> wrote:
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I was thinking about generating a key based on something like the host
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name i.e. the user sends me their host name and I send them a license
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that will allow them to run the application on that computer only (i.e.
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it's encoded into the license key and checked each time the program
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runs).
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I'd like to get people's feedback on whether this would help prevent
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piracy, and whether the extra step of people sending me the hostname (or
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some other info to identify their computer) in order to obtain a license
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would be likely to lose sales for me. The application has a demo mode
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that lets them try out the application, with saving and printing
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disabled, so they would be able to assess the application without a
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license.
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Comments?
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Thanks
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Gideon.
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