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  1. July 3rd, 2012, 11:22 PM #1
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    software copy protection

    I am looking to add software copy protection to my software app. Any recommendations.
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  2. July 4th, 2012, 12:56 AM #2
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    Re: software copy protection

    Quite a broad question. There may be numerous ways. What exactly do you want to protect? Do you have a licensing system?
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    Re: software copy protection

    Another question is what language are you using, and what IDE ?? ...

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    Re: software copy protection

    Some links for your reference, they are not exactly what you are looking for, but will give you fair idea about what you want to achieve...

    Thread: How do you build a 30-day trial app?
    Thread: Create Trial Version of an appliation
    Thread: Creating a Trial period for software
    CExpire - A C++ class that implements time and run based restrictions
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  6. July 4th, 2012, 07:16 AM #5
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    Re: software copy protection

    Eish, when a person gets old....... ( talking about me here )

    You could have a look at my article ( which I forgot about ) as well - it might give you some ideas too :

    Protecting Visual Basic .NET Source Code and Applications
    http://www.codeguru.com/csharp/.net/...le.php/c11817/
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