Author: Uri Blass
Date: 01:34:21 09/28/05
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On September 27, 2005 at 22:57:43, Neil Schemenauer wrote: >On September 26, 2005 at 16:33:53, Joachim Rang wrote: > >>However with Fruit being the strongest engine we >>expected some piracy-attraction. With an engine being only a few hundred KBs we >>feared that a distribution by simply emailing the engine with a valid serial is >>very easy and might hurt sales. > >Don't you think that it's likely that your copy protection will be cracked? Of course but the average user cannot crack it after buying it. sending by email key that is not based on hardware is very easy to do. In >that case, pirates can still email the engine to each other. They can do it but first one of them need to crack it and if they do not know about someone who cracked it they will not be able to do it. What does your >copy protection do except inconvenience legitimate customers? It probably prevent part of the cracking. > >Even if you manage to do what no one has ever managed to do and come up with an >uncrackable copy protection scheme, will it cause any net gain in sales? I >believe that people who intend to pirate the software would be unlikely to pay >for it if pirating was impossible. I think that you are wrong in part of the cases. crackers are not always so sophisticated and I heard about at least one case when A buy software and B copied it and they both payed half of the prize. Of course it may be possible to do it also with fruit when one is going to cheat and claim that he is using both his computer and computer of his friend but it is not going to be very convenient and I think that in most cases these people will choose between not buying fruit and between paying the full price. I really do not know if the idea is productive in increasing sales of fruit but I understand that it is not going to be used if Fabien sells 1000 fruit's so if you do not want this idea to be used then the best idea to prevent it is simply to buy fruit. Uri
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