Copy protection and license management programs

[chris]

Can you recommend any copy protection and license management solutions for
protecting my softwares ?

Users should have license for using programs according to their contract
days. ex. 180 days.

Thanks a lot in advance!

 

[H-Man]

Can you recommend any copy protection and license management solutions for
protecting my softwares ?

Users should have license for using programs according to their contract
days. ex. 180 days.

Thanks a lot in advance!

http://www.activelock.com/

 

[Nobody]

http://www.activelock.com/

ActiveLock is very weak, not to mention cracked. Here is a good alternative,
but I didn't use it:

http://www.aspack.com/asprotectske.aspx

 

[Tony Toews [MVP]]

Can you recommend any copy protection and license management solutions for
protecting my softwares ?

Users should have license for using programs according to their contract
days. ex. 180 days.

I wrote my own system.

Tools available from sites such as sysinternals.com can crack any
method you use to store a future date anywhere on a system such as in
the registry or a file. Unless it's encrypted. But even then if you
delete the date from wherever it's stored your app may think it's just
installed.

Thus I prefer to limit the number of records in one key table such as
5 units or 50 volunteers but allow unlimited access for everything
else. Once I get paid then I email them an encrypted file containing
the number of records they are licensed for as well as their company
name which goes on the bottom of every page of every report and
frequently used forms.

For more of my thoughts on this topic see the "Copy protection or how
to safely distribute a demo Microsoft Access Application" page at
http://www.granite.ab.ca/access/demo.htm

Tony
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[C Kevin Provance]

|
| >Can you recommend any copy protection and license management solutions
for
| >protecting my softwares ?
| >
| >Users should have license for using programs according to their contract
| >days. ex. 180 days.
| Tools available from sites such as sysinternals.com can crack any
| method you use to store a future date anywhere on a system such as in
| the registry or a file. Unless it's encrypted. But even then if you
| delete the date from wherever it's stored your app may think it's just
| installed.

This is why you don't put the entire encrypted string in one place. <eg>

True, nothing is truly infalable, but there are ways to make it so hard that
it just isn't worth the hack's time.

 

[Tony Toews [MVP]]

| >Can you recommend any copy protection and license management solutions
for
| >protecting my softwares ?
| >
| >Users should have license for using programs according to their contract
| >days. ex. 180 days.
| Tools available from sites such as sysinternals.com can crack any
| method you use to store a future date anywhere on a system such as in
| the registry or a file. Unless it's encrypted. But even then if you
| delete the date from wherever it's stored your app may think it's just
| installed.

This is why you don't put the entire encrypted string in one place. <eg>

So what if you put the encrypted string in multiple places. Tools
can still read all those places.

Tony
--
Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP
Please respond only in the newsgroups so that others can
read the entire thread of messages.
Microsoft Access Links, Hints, Tips & Accounting Systems at
http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm
Tony's Microsoft Access Blog - http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/

 

[Linq Adams via AccessMonster.com]

I've used Tony's approach before, with success. I think you have to ask
yourself the same question you should ask in any security situation: Who/what
are you protecting yourself against?

If you're flogging your apps to companies that have their own IT/programming
people, and they're simply buying something off-the-rack because it's cheaper
or they're in a time bind and can't do it themselves, you might need to worry
about them using software to "crack" your security.

But if your software is aimed at Mom & Pop operations, then that's probably
not a valid concern.

It's like buying a bike lock. If it's a racing bike and cost $5000, it's
reasonable to but a high-end bike lock that costs $500. The bike is at risk
for being stolen. But if the bike is a beat up, 15 year old Schwinn that
you've had since high school, a $5000 lock is overkill.

 

[aaron.kempf]

you charge people for getting more records?

jesus that's fucking stupid

and you're a fucking con artist

**** you and jet-- move to SQL Server-- host the server yourself if
you want to get paid

-Aaron