![]() Must be quick to implement and hassle-free.Software Protection Requirementsįirst, here’s my set of requirements for a good software protection solution, in order of importance: Themida sounded great though, so I decided to buy a copy and test it. We have our own license key system that is fully integrated into our customer database and ordering system, so WinLicense doesn’t apply to our situation. Themida is just the software protection system. ![]() WinLicense is a full software license control and software protection system. ![]() Some of them proving my point, as they showed some developers can *really* get worked up about their software being pirated □īut others suggested that I should take a look at WinLicense / Themida. ThemidaĪnyway, after posting the above article, I received a lot of reactions. So we stopped using Armadillo and just released unprotected executables. For most new versions it took about a week before a crack was released, whereas unprotected builds got cracked within a day. Others even reported that the new build just refused to start on their machine.Ĭustomer support was a nightmare: for every weird bug that was reported, we found ourselves wondering: Is this really a bug in *our* code, or is it caused by Armadillo again.Īlso, our software got cracked anyway. And each time we tried using it again, we immediately got complaints from users that the new build was suddenly slower or that it just crashed very often. We have used it on and off for a couple of years. I must say that my frustration with software protection was based on using Armadillo (now called SoftwarePassport). In any case, don’t let piracy irritate you, drain your energy, waste your time or take away your focus from the important stuff: Improving and selling your software. ![]() Making the cracker’s life harder has no effect whatsoever on the number of users that get access to a cracked copy of your software. If your software is protected, it will only take slightly longer before the cracker publishes his crack. ![]() Remember my post about fighting software piracy? A quick summary:ĭon’t bother protecting your software against piracy. ![]()
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