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Questions tagged [piracy-protection]

Strategies to protect an application / software from being copied or used without permission.

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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,…
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Is it possible to inspect the command line arguments passed to an VB6 app from outside the app

I have a VB6 application that has a licensing module in VB6 which checks for the authenticated user. If authentication is successful, this application calls main application with authentication information. Now, I wanted to pass information in…
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Basic precautions to prevent piracy?

It's my first app and I am concerned about piracy. I know it's not possible to fully prevent it but I would like to make it as hard that the hacker wouldn't simply find it worth. I have read some older threads but I don't know how secure Android and…
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Embedding username in C++ application to make logins easier?

Protecting against piracy when developing desktop applications through product keys, obfuscation, or similar client-side protections is pointless (plenty of stackoverflow posts regarding that). The only real way to prevent piracy is to create a…
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Ways to prevent unauthorized users?

I typically have not worried at all about piracy or copy protection with software however I currently find myself in a unique situation. I develop an application for repairing computers for a specific computer repair company. Recently an employee…
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WiFi data protection from landlord / Router as encrypted repeater?

I have a spare router lying around. In our house, we’re using our landlords WiFi and we’re a bit sketched out to allow them to read all our visited websites and whatnot. So there are basically two ideas. A) use one of the many VPNs to undermine…
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Coded Anti Piracy

I am a non technical founder of a tech startup, so please go easy if my question is too tertiary for your level. Every time I use Amazon Prime video to watch a tv show/movie and take a screenshot it comes out as everything as is except the movie…
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