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posted by janrinok on Saturday March 22 2014, @02:37AM   Printer-friendly
from the questions-without-answers dept.

AnonTechie writes:

"Echoing a question asked on programmers.stackexchange.com - How can software be protected from piracy ?

It just seems a little hard to believe that with all of our technological advances and the billions of dollars spent on engineering the most unbelievable and mind-blowing software, we still have no other means of protecting against piracy than a "serial number/activation key." I'm sure a ton of money, maybe even billions, went into creating Windows 7 or Office and even Snow Leopard, yet I can get it for free in less than 20 minutes. Same for all of Adobe's products, which are probably the easiest. Can there exist a fool-proof and hack-proof method of protecting your software against piracy? If not realistically, could it be theoretically possible? Or no matter what mechanisms these companies deploy, can hackers always find a way around it ?"

 
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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 22 2014, @12:22PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 22 2014, @12:22PM (#19674)

    don't try to restrict your users

    Years back, it was decided by Cadsoft to add DRM to their product, EAGLE (an ECAD for producing printed circuit boards).
    If you don't use the product exactly the way they intended, your work product becomes locked.
    The presence of DRM is, of course, not mentioned anywhere in the license.
    Paid-up users got sucker-punched by this and tried to get their work unlocked by the company.
    The company said NO.
    I mention this every chance I get.
    I don't know the total number of people I convinced to bypass Cadsoft, but I do know the number is not zero.

    This shit only hurts your real customers, Don't ever do it. It backfires.

    -- gewg_

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