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Software Copy Protection Questions
tinjaw:
Well, I haven't looked at what they have to offer other than a brief glance at their websites, but I doubt I can afford any of them as none of them put prices on their websites. Sure, $10,000 is a small price to pay when your software sells for $100,000 per unit, but when I sell 100 copies total at $10, I can't afford anything that is too expensive to have prices posted on a website. The three are http://www.defendion.com, http://www.vilabs.com and http://www.byteshield.net.
tinjaw:
Maybe I am wrong, but I think all the Armadillo cracks are because the developers just used the product out of the box and just used the plain wrapper. :huh: I plan on getting a custom build of the software, not using the defaults, and using more than a simple wrapper - for example protected sections of code, random key checks, etc.
:o If I am completely naive and setting myself up for failure, please tell me now instead of telling me, "I told you so." later.
tinjaw:
Let me follow on by asking what books, articles, etc. should I read to educate myself on this area? And I'm not asking for websites that cover the topic so that I can follow the latest news and trends, but something I can read in its entirety and learn the subject matter.
f0dder:
There aren't any complete books on the subject (that are worth reading, anyway) - you really do need to dig into the websites, sorry.
mouser:
i think it may be overstating the case to say that armadillo is one of the most cracked protections.
you could probably just as easily say it's one of the hardest to crack protections -- it certainly belongs to the very small handful of serious professional software-only protection wrappers which are actively developed and can only be touched by the highest-level of crackers.
bottom line is as some have said here, which is that there is no solution that is going to be a fool-proof protection for your software. the best you can hope to do is to put in good protection against most attacks, which won't inconvenience your real users.
it's probably a fools errand to find a super amazing protection without sacrificing usability.
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