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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 ?"
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Sunday March 23 2014, @04:13AM
That would be Baen, I presume.
What they also found was that suddenly there was renewed demand for older stuff. Which meant not only was Baen profiting, their authors were profiting, from works that normally would be past their shelf life.
Baen found this all so enlightening, that they started releasing big swaths of their stuff on redistributable CDs, as a bonus with printed works. Frex:
http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/ [thefifthimperium.com]
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Sunday March 23 2014, @05:21PM
Thanks, I didn't remember everything from the article. It probably was Baen.
mcgrewbooks.com mcgrew.info nooze.org