Solve : How do yopu protect your work from piracy??

1.	Solve : How do yopu protect your work from piracy??
Answer» If you made a new software product and you wanted to protect it from piracy; what would be you choice as a method of protection. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_protection_dongle Software protection dongle (The Wikipedia article has issues.) This article is also relevant to some extent. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management Any COMMENTS welcome. Within reason. Quote from: Geek-9pm on January 04, 2012, 10:23:18 PM If you made a new software product and you wanted to protect it from piracy; what would be you choice as a method of protection. None. If you ask me, developer time is better spent adding new features than trying to add some futile protection scheme. the idea being that one could justify ignoring piracy on the basis that the new feature could very well have attracted new customers and made the revenue stream stronger than it would have been if "piracy protection" was the feature that was added, since that has no consumer value whatsoever, and may in fact drive off potential customers. And there is the additional cost of more support as your piracy protection scheme fires off for legitimate customers.Thanks BC_programmer. Excellent concept. Developers, TAKE heed! Many companies have spent millions (Disney, News Corp, the NFL, Time Warner, SONY, Viacom, etc.) and gotten nowhere. Quote Millions spent on copyright hasn't cut piracy The EUROPEAN Union's digital agenda commissioner has hit out at digital entertainment, claiming that the millions of pounds spent enforcing rights issues online has only served to make people hate copyright and hasn't cut online piracy. Echo what BC_Programmer said. Quote Sopa battle hots up as US Congress debates piracy bill Hollywood executives spend $91m lobbying for approval of Stop Online Piracy Act, which tech industry says will stifle creativity.

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If you made a new software product and you wanted to protect it from piracy; what would be you choice as a method of protection.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_protection_dongle
Software protection dongle
(The Wikipedia article has issues.)

This article is also relevant to some extent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management

Any COMMENTS welcome. Within reason.
Quote from: Geek-9pm on January 04, 2012, 10:23:18 PM

If you made a new software product and you wanted to protect it from piracy; what would be you choice as a method of protection.

None. If you ask me, developer time is better spent adding new features than trying to add some futile protection scheme.

the idea being that one could justify ignoring piracy on the basis that the new feature could very well have attracted new customers and made the revenue stream stronger than it would have been if "piracy protection" was the feature that was added, since that has no consumer value whatsoever, and may in fact drive off potential customers. And there is the additional cost of more support as your piracy protection scheme fires off for legitimate customers.Thanks BC_programmer. Excellent concept. Developers, TAKE heed! Many companies have spent millions (Disney, News Corp, the NFL, Time Warner, SONY, Viacom, etc.) and gotten nowhere.

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Millions spent on copyright hasn't cut piracy

The EUROPEAN Union's digital agenda commissioner has hit out at digital entertainment, claiming that the millions of pounds spent enforcing rights issues online has only served to make people hate copyright and hasn't cut online piracy.

Echo what BC_Programmer said.

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Sopa battle hots up as US Congress debates piracy bill

Hollywood executives spend $91m lobbying for approval of Stop Online Piracy Act, which tech industry says will stifle creativity.

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