How do you protect your commercial application from being installed on multiple computers from people who only own one license?
Do you think it's a good idea to have more than just a serial based scheme?
How do you protect your commercial application from being installed on multiple computers from people who only own one license?
Do you think it's a good idea to have more than just a serial based scheme?
Speaking as someone who has to install all kinds of software on all kinds of machines, do please spare a thought for the poor network administrators when thinking up your copy protection scheme. Please, please, consider network-wide installs when writing your installer - by all means include some kind of serial number protection, even make me phone up or contact your website and get an authorisation code to get a site-wide installer code or whatever, but please make sure your licensing code works. A good way to ensure your technically-superior-to-anything-else-on-the-market software doesn't get installed and used is to mess up the installer or have an install system that is simply too much trouble.