copy-protection

I am creating an application in Android. I want that once my application is installed on one device, user should not be able to copy the ".apk" and run it on other device. Please help me out. Thanks in advance. :) The answer I'm about to give is not the answer you want to hear, but please read through, as I will justify this answer and give you an alternative model you might be able to use in your application. In general, you should not look for a single method that will be absolutely successful in protecting your application from being pirated. A determined pirate will, at some point, be able

I want to protect a pdf file from being directly linked but instead have my logged in users be able to access it. I have a link which currently goes to a javascript function which posts a form: $('nameofdoc').setProperty('value',doc); document.getElementById('sendme').submit(); where sendme is the name of the form and nameof doc the index of the document I want to display. This then goes to a php file: $docpath = $holdingArray[0].$holdingArray[1]; $file = $holdingArray[0]; //file name $filename = $holdingArray[1]; //path to the file] header( 'Location:'.$docpath ) ; header('Content-type:

I'm developing a small windows app using c++ and i would like to get some kind of fingerprint of the software/hardware on a pc so that i can allow the app to be run only on certain pc's. I am aware that the app can be cracked but i'm really interested in implementing something like this. Any ideas how could i achieve this? It basically depends on how tight you want to couple your software to the underlying hardware. For example you could get some hardware information from the registry, read out the MAC address from the LAN card, retrieve the gfx manufacturer, the CPU id, etc. and hash all

Same intro as my last question: I am re-writing and/or consolidating a bunch of my "app framework" classes (basic mainform, about box, locking routines & purchase linking, auto-update, datamodule initializer, etc) -- Basically, I have a number of small potential shareware apps that I'm wanting to get out the door, and want to re-use code where I can, as well as build a framework for later apps to save time. But different question: : ) What is the best shareware lock component for Delphi Win 32 apps? (I don't mind paying for commercial if that's best). Clarifying -- yes, best license key

I know that anything that is downloaded and is in the user's possession is going to be pretty hard to protect, but I'm just wanting to hear opinions. I'm thinking of selling a script (made with Greasemonkey...), and I want to be able to prevent the user from easily viewing the source code, or sending it to others. Thanks in advance. Josiah As with any javascript, complete protection is impossible due to the nature of the language, see: Javascript library: to obfuscate or not to obfuscate - that is the question and How can I obfuscate (protect) JavaScript? However, you can obfuscate your

I want to sell my Java application using PayPal. When a payment is received, the customer is mailed a one-time download link to my application. My question is, how do I prevent people from sending the .jar file to their friends/uploading it on the internet? Obviously I need some kind of check in the application which only allows it to run on one computer. And that's another problem, I don't want a customer to have limitations on one computer, they should be able to run it at home and work etc. Maybe some kind of cd-key would do the trick? Is there any cd-key resources for Java out there? Or

I've got quiz application. Where robot ask different questions in chat, this questions belong to different areas of knowledges. User that answered question first, receive points. The problem is, that some users googling answers. I want somehow prevent users from coping question from web page and googling answers. I'm not even sure, that this is possible, anyway probably someone got any ideas mowwwalker Here: How to disable text selection highlighting using CSS? -webkit-user-select: none; -khtml-user-select: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; -o-user-select: none; user-select:

Possible Duplicates: How do you protect your software from illegal distribution? Best practice to prevent software copy Hypothetical situation: Lets say I have built a software product from the scratch and it does wonderful things. The only problem is that, once someone takes a look at the code, they will understand it very easily and they can easily build it up themselves. Now, the thing is that I built the code from the scratch 100% and uses a mixture of API calls. Nobody else is involved in the development of the code. If I want to sell this product, what is the guarantee that someone much