Software Copyright Protection

by **sponge** » Jun 30, 2003 @ 6:31am

How would you do that? All the large distribution places have operators/moderators everywhere, not to mention tons of private sites.

by **goatCE** » Jun 30, 2003 @ 6:59am

If you write the software using .net or vb it can't be disassembled. So someone would have to buy it to spread it. Mix that with a device generated serial and you'd see lots of activity from someone who is giving out serials.

The first statement could be wrong, going off of what i've heard.

by **Velo** » Jun 30, 2003 @ 8:22am

by **Conan** » Jun 30, 2003 @ 9:21am

by **Maledorito** » Jun 30, 2003 @ 12:45pm

by **Dan East** » Jun 30, 2003 @ 2:57pm

Cracking at the simplest level just requires a Hex editor, and setting various bytes to 0. For example, to keep a message box from appearing, you can set the first character of the string to 0. The MessageBox routine will not show a window if it is passed a string of zero length. 0 is NOP, so you can prevent branches to other code by setting a 0, etc.

The idea of any protection scheme is two-fold. To prevent casual sharing from among typical users, and to prevent trivial hacks from breaking the protection (ie the types of hacking I mentioned above).

Dan East

by **refractor** » Jun 30, 2003 @ 3:00pm

They just use a disassembler. <a href="http://www.datarescue.com/idabase/">ida pro</a> or somesuch.

by **sponge** » Jun 30, 2003 @ 4:54pm

by **Maledorito** » Jun 30, 2003 @ 9:26pm

by **Guest** » Jul 1, 2003 @ 9:21pm

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