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<p><font face="Segoe UI">BOOM.</font></p>
<p><font face="Segoe UI">Exactly this. I think people get really,
REALLY convoluted in these things. All these crazy processes and
obfuscation can introduce stability risks imho and for minimal
real world gain. There isn't a system out there that hasn't been
hacked. iLok et al are just silly imho. <br>
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<p><font face="Segoe UI">At best you're just going to to try to keep
people honest, the people that use cracked versions were
unlikely to pay for it anyway.</font></p>
<p><font face="Segoe UI">Partial Key validation can be a good
approach too.</font></p>
<p><font face="Segoe UI">I just wrote my own based around public /
private keys. Wrote a little tool to query my sales back-end and
automates producing a key and emailing it to the user. Email has
a button to click that launches the app and stuffs the code in.
They don't even have to type anything or even copy+paste
anything (unless it's web based email client). I also didn't
want the user to *have* to have an internet connection, nor any
calling home.</font></p>
<p><font face="Segoe UI">Horses for courses though.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 17/08/2021 16:14, Joost Schuttelaar
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On 17 Aug 2021, at 16:07, Matt Picone <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:matt@mysticworks.com"><matt@mysticworks.com></a> wrote:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Does anyone here have skills or know anyone who is strong in the area of development around audio software anti piracy?
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No expertise, but a very interesting topic!
Aren’t most copy protection schemes quite trivial to break these days, when Mac’s for instance enforce memory as non-executable, and have features like address space randomization on by default? I remember that things like iLok basically do tons of self inspections to see if code was modified, right?
I think the best copy protection schemes are: user loyalty, some quite useful cloud features and frequent updates (just make it hard to stay up to date…)
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