piracy-protection

Piracy protection using USB based hardware solution

Hi, i want to protect my Java product by using some USB-based authentication and password management solution like you can buy it here: aladdin This mean that you have to connect a USB stick with a special software on it, before you can start your application. I would like to here some experience of users which have used hardware like ...

Get fileSize of info.plist to prevent piracy

The title says it all. I'm trying to put anti-piracy code in my app. The previous answer to this (which I can't link to because of my member status - sucks) can be easily countered, since the "SignerIdentity" string can be looked for and replaced in the binary using a hex editor. Instead, checking the fileSize of the info.plist file a...

VMWare image protection

Hi all, we have an application that is packaged as a Linux VMWare image. Now we have to find a way to protect it against illegal duplication and installation. We have studied several USB dongle-based solutions, but all of them require modifications of the application at the source code level (simple instrumentation is restricted to Wind...

Licence and/or concurrent use enforcement mechanism for fairly open UNIX product?

I would be grateful for any suggestions on how to add license key enforcement or concurrent user limit enforcement to a (UNIX-based) software product that - while not explicitly open-source - the end-user nominally has source code to, or could, conceivably, obtain with relative ease because the servers running it are located on their pre...

Is a commercial licensing tool better than a home grown solution for licensing a software product.

Hi, We are developing a product in C#.Net. We would definately not like our product to be copied easily across machines (in short pirated). For that purpose can anybody suggest using a 3rd party tool or a home grown solution. What are the pros and cons of each. One negative about home grown solution is that the cost involved in creati...

How to prevent application thievery (specific to Android applications)?

I was wondering what the most effective way of preventing people from stealing my application (downloading a copy of the .apk online rather than buying it). I've spent a lot of time on one in particular (Droidbox) and won't be releasing Sync until I can guarantee that the people who are providing illegal copies of the pro version aren't...

Is it possible to cheat thumb drive Serial Number?

I want to distribute my software on flash (thumb) drives. The software protection will check that the product runs from a flash drive with predefined Serial Number thus protecting me from the software unauthorized duplication. My question is if it possible to somehow create another flash drive with the same Serial Number? E.g. if a flas...