To stop software piracy?

[hyper_ch]

What do you mean?

[honeydew]

like you want to block rar files or isos from coming down the pipe? or your worried about evul hackers stealing your code?

[Dr Small]

or your worried about evul hackers stealing your code?

Hey!
Tread not on the heads of the elite :)

[honeydew]

*hides trout and grovels*

:mrgreen:

[synd7]

uhh, disable the internet?
If its on a computer, you can get it for free. Try as you might, with motivation, any protection system can be beaten

[HermanAB]

Simple:
http://fsf.org

It sounds counter intuitive, but the best way to prevent piracy is to claim copyright, then give it away. This way, the economic value of the code is destroyed and it is turned into a commodity and you make money by selling your services instead.

Since you are the expert that knows your code best, people will gladly pay you to do things for them. You don't need to sell the code.

For example, people pay me big bucks to install and configure systems and write device drivers.

Cheers,

Herman

[hyper_ch]

just publish it under gpl and it can't be pirated anymore.