protecting time-limited demos
protecting time-limited demos
- Subject: protecting time-limited demos
- From: Ron Phillips <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 11:40:33 -0500
How does one protect a time-limited demo? I've seen discussions here
about protecting licensed software but not demos. I am far from a
licensing guru (hence the problem) but I see various schemes:
1) Somehow the time (or usage count) is hidden on the hard drive (?) -
best I can guess. This solution is protected better than the
Presidential football codes.
2) The demo customer gets a free trial license after install. How does
that work?
I'm not looking for a solution "on the cheap." I'm willing to
purchase, within reason, whatever solution or expertise that will solve
this problem. I've looked at some postings here about modifying a file
size in the bundle to keep up with launch counts. But all you need to
do to defeat this is re-install the app. (I visualize keeping the .sit
file on the desktop and re-installing after the demo lapses.)
If this is not the forum for this, could some kind soul point me to the
place that is. I've been to the end of the internet and have found
nothing.
Thanks in advance,
Ron
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