OpenEuphoria

Re: Copy Protection

• Posted by euman at bellsouth.net Nov 19, 2001
• 726 views

This wont work for what I need cause the data will be on a usage monitor as
well.

From: <freeplay at mailandnews.com>
> Hello Euman,
>
> One copy protection method I've seen in the past is where the software is
also
> distributed with a printed manual.  When the software is run it asks for a
> word from the manual to be entered.  For example:
>
>   "To activate type the 3rd word in the second paragraph on page 32 of the
> manual".
>
> If you don't get it right then the software doesn't run - you have to try
> again and when you do your asked for a word from a different part of the
> manual.
>
> The idea is that while it is easy and very cheap to copy the content of a
> floppy it's a bit more hassle to copy a manual.  I guess you could photo
copy
> the manual but if the manual is 100 pages or so this might be a bit
pricey.
> Also I guess the manual could be scanned in and converted to a word
document
> (or PDF or whatever) and also copied to a second diskette but even
scanning a
> 100 plus pages is a bit of a pain.
>
> However, the general idea is to make the process more cumbersome.
>
> Regards,
>
> FP.