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- From: christon (Christopher Naas)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Copy Protection
- Date: 1 Feb 1996 20:15:13 +0100
- Organization: SN Internett
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- Darius Taghavy wrote:
-
- >Considerations:
- >- secret data/code in block that is then mapped as bad block
- Would only work if you *had* to run your software from disk, i.e. no harddisk
- install, right? Bad move.
-
- >- username encrypted in executable (during installation)
- Good idea. WordWorth and DirOpus uses this. I haven't seen a "cracked"
- WordWorth yet.
-
- >- environment variable
- Huh?
-
- >- CDROM only, span entire 600MB space, so pirates would have to
- > dedicate a 600MB hard disk if they want to steal (unlikely scenario)
- And you could only sell to people who have CD Roms. Not all Amiga users have
- one.
-
- >Anything goes, including
- >- DOS protection with install counts (like many MAC music apps)
- And every time you ReOrg your harddrive, it fails.
-
- >- username encryption in executable
- Again, good idea.
-
- >- manual lookup
- Boring and more likely to be spread.
-
- >- customized copies for each customer with encrypted
- > serial number, name and environment variable
- A lot of work if you're going commercial.
-
- >- joystick port
- > Examples: Pro 24 and Brilliance; have they been cracked?
- Brilliance has been cracked. I don't know about Pro24.
-
- >- parallel port (with pass thru)
- > Seen ads in PC related mags, I believe they use PALs, but
- > seemed very expensive
- I believe it was Real3d that used/(uses) this. AFAIK, all you had to do was
- plug in a sampler and it would run. ;)
-
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