Copies of your app running on the local net

[Mark Schonewille]

Hello,

Of course, if there is a firewall in place, it might render any check  
for copies of the software on the network useless. There are  
utilities such as LittleSnitch to prevent programmes from contacting  
the network and the internet. That's why I wrote that there is a hack  
for each protection measure  --there really is. The question is how  
much you want to invest in protection and how much others want to do  
to override this protection.

Currently, I have 5 computers that I use each day (just counted), all  
with a different setup and different user names and passwords. Having  
5 different licenses for each application I am buying means that my  
database for license keys would grow very quickly. It would become  
increasingly complex to do maintenance on the systems I'm using.

If you want me to run the software on only one computer, you really  
don't want to give me more than one user name. This is contradictory  
with your suggestion to provide users with an easy way to get a new  
license key when they want to change their user name.

Suppose that you want to accommodate for the possibility to change  
user names. You would have to supply new license codes all the time.  
This doesn't only undermine the protective power of your licensing  
scheme, it also increases the danger of old license codes being lost  
and found by opportunists. Additionally, it demands an increasingly  
large amount of resources from your support department, due to the  
complexity of your license scheme.

Best,

Mark

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Op 29-mei-2006, om 18:25 heeft Paul Claude het volgende geschreven:

> on 29-05-2006 16:56, Alex Tweedly at alex at tweedly.net wrote:
>
>> There is a sample UDP client and server in revonline under username
>> alextweedly - it's just a very simple echo server and echo client,  
>> but
>> should be a start for you.
>
> The UDP firewalled should be a problem.
>
>> I wish I were that organized :-).
>> I think I have at least 5 different user names on the computers in  
>> my house.
>
> And you would not buy an app that offer you, for example, 5 license  
> codes
> for each computer you own? I can't find other solutions.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Paul Claude