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Top 10 Questions to ask when buying software copy protection
By Jon Gillespie-Brown | May 1, 2007
The ‘detail’ in the answers to these questions is what counts – you need to dig deep into the answer to understand the real ramifications to you of the exact solution they are offering.
No means No, when they say the security fails BUT it’s easy to re-license, this a question of opinion, your customers may not agree. Users hate finding your old license keys, login names, purchase details and any other required proof of purchase.
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How long is your money back guarantee? |
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Is the support in our language? Where are you located? |
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Has your software been broken or cracked? |
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Will your protection survive a Windows HDD re-format? fdisk? re-partition? |
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Will your protection survive the use of Norton Ghost? Beat VMware/VPC? |
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Will your protection survive the changing of any hardware in the users PC i.e. Lan card, motherboard, cpu etc? |
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Will your protection survive re-booting in safe or administrator mode and resetting parameters? What about Vista? |
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Will your protection survive when the admin "locks down" the system, will the limited users software still work? |
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Will your protection survive re-loading Windows or a non-permanent hard disk crash where the Windows "User" details are lost. |
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Will your protection survive the user finding the copy protection files, registry entries, codes, parameters and changing them to render the security useless? |
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