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- From: accolyte@wr.com.au (Accolyte)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Copy Protection
- Date: 4 Feb 1996 10:34:40 GMT
- Organization: Information Services, The University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- > I am seriously considering to copyprotect my application
- > before release. I have strong reasons for doing so, but I
- > hope to start a technical threat, not a philosophical one.
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- > In taking this step I do not wish to create any hassles for
- > my users, but to protect my and their investment to be able
- > to offer continued support and development as I am very serious
- > about this product.
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- <snip>
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- > Hardware Protection (Dongle)
- > I would strongly prefer hardware protection, as it seems to
- > present the safest, quickest and least messy way to protect
- > my application. Cubase and Logic (Mac/Windows) use this with great
- > success. I am aware of these options:
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- > - joystick port
- > Examples: Pro 24 and Brilliance; have they been cracked?
- > what do they contain? A PAL? How do I build and
- > support one?
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- > - parallel port (with pass thru)
- > Seen ads in PC related mags, I believe they use PALs, but
- > seemed very expensive
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- Argh! Please no! Hardware dongles ARE 'messy' - I'd prefer a key disk
- and that's saying a lot. Furthermore, dongle protection is just as
- easy to crack as manual protection - only much much more irritating
- for the legitimate user.
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- How can you seriously consider hardware protection, I doubt any of us
- are willing to give up our parallel port, or our joystick port just to
- use one application, no matter how good it is.
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- Manual protection or encoding a number for each registered user is the
- best idea I think. (perhaps just a few numbers instead of a name, because
- that'd be harder to locate)
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