AW: AW: OT: locking software to one specific machine?

[Tiemo Hollmann TB]

I did not mentioned that we had also some steps in between.

But many of the per-user licenses can be passed on.
I don't know how Adobe or Microsoft prevent people of passing their user
license to other people.

Tiemo

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-revolution-
> bounces at lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Richard Gaskin
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 4. März 2010 18:00
> An: How to use Revolution
> Betreff: Re: AW: OT: locking software to one specific machine?
> 
> Tiemo Hollmann wrote:
> > In the first years our software was - in your intention - completely
> > free of copy protection, later we implemented a copy protection on
> some
> > programs, which were running off the CD.
> >
> > We made the experience, that nobody ever thanked us the ease of use
> and lack
> > of licensing. Just the opposite. Just because our target market is so
> small
> > and lots of people know each other, our software was copied, given
> away
> > without control.
> 
> "Completely free of copy protection" is very different from the
> industry-standard per-user license keys I described, and not something
> I
> would advocate for any commercial product.
> 
> In markets where piracy is an unusually serious consideration,
> server-based activation can provide reasonable control over license key
> redistribution.  If smartly implemented with grace periods, "phone
> home"
> activation should pose no inconvenience to the end-user.
> 
> But most successful products don't even do that, they merely use
> pre-generated keys.  Per-user license keys have made Adobe, Microsoft,
> Apple, and most other software vendors quite profitable.
> 
> Not having any protection at all is, IMO, only appropriate for free
> products.  The early years of the computer industry's "shareware"
> experiments proved that convincingly.  The difference between "free
> demo" and "full version" need not be onerous to the user, but there
> must
> be some incentive to motivate the user to put in the additional effort
> to fill out an order form.
> 
> This is one reason why having PayPal as a payment option is so
> valuable:
>   it reduces the payment process to just a single password field and
> one
> click.
> 
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