Archive for March, 2008
“Ghosting” is the easiest way to scare the CFO
Thursday, March 20th, 2008INTRODUCTION:
As we all know “Ghost” and similar disk copying/backup applications are excellent tools for end users for cloning hard drives or for corporate rollouts.
The problem lies with the word, cloning. These programs make a copy of a partition (and sometimes the MBR) and then end users have a re-usable image of the authorized programs on […]
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Standing up to EBay’s software piracy epidemic…finally
Monday, March 10th, 2008For years people have been trying to get eBay to remove pirates from the auction site who are selling cracked copies of their products.
eBay’s refrain “it’s not our fault, we are just the marketplace”…baloney, they don’t want to face up to their responsibilities. Why not? because it will be very hard and very expensive.
They have […]
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Beating Software DRM…some of the terms used.
Friday, March 7th, 2008Useful terms in understanding the software cracker world and how they will try and pirate your Software application.
Pirates beat DRMs through Exploits, KeyGens and Cracks. Each of these approaches is distinct, and requires differing amounts of effort to avoid being pirated.
A brief description of each, in order of least to most effort involved to make […]
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One ISV’s view on life and software copy protection
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008Kevin Hoctor has something to say on the world of software copy protection and it’s not what you think!
OK so he is fed up with those who wish to rip him off and have cracked his software:
I guess MoneyWell has hit the big time: it was [k’ed]. That means that some sad individual spent his […]
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