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GeneralImplementing Serial number / Trial version Pin
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shaunAustin21-May-03 3:59
shaunAustin21-May-03 3:59 
I've had this issue before.

Unless you want to pay out loads of cash for a protection package which will almost certainly get cracked you should just put some simple time expiry code in. Maybe add a time stamp to an innocent file somewhere or something.

The thing is in my experience, if you produce a nice little app and distribute it as a trial then get people to buy. Most people will- if it is a good application- pay the few quid to get the full version. The issue really is that if it is an app that is __so__ good that it becomes __very__ popular, it doesn't matter what scheme people use to protect it, it WILL be cracked and on Kazaa within 24 hours. (as with Windows XP, Office XP, PhotoShop, InDesign etc etc etc all cracked and shared despite the investment in copy protection and license enforcement!)

You can't win.

The only 98% way of securing the software is to use something like hardware dongling... but that's a different set of deployment scenarios.

Smile | :)
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