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Ask Slashdot: What Is a Reasonable Way To Deter Piracy?

Posted by Soulskill on from the go-to-their-house-and-verify-them-personally dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I'm an indie developer about to release a small ($5 — $10 range) utility for graphic designers. I'd like to employ at least a basic deterrent to pirates, but with the recent SimCity disaster, I'm wondering: what is a reasonable way to deter piracy without ruining things for legitimate users? A simple serial number? Online activation? Encrypted binaries? Please share your thoughts."

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  1. Re:Read This by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 4, Funny

    Read this. Memorize it.

    I did, but now I've forgotten C++. Thanks a bunch!

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  2. Re:life-long updates by Immerman · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not giving your credit card info to some random person or "company" is paranoid now? Well shit, tell you what, I've got a lovely iPad I'll sell you for a nickle, just give me your credit card info...

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  3. Re:life-long updates by Stormy+Dragon · · Score: 5, Funny

    On a similar note, I once saw a utility that, if unregistered, would let you use everything in it, the only catch being that all of the fonts in the tool switched to Comic Sans.

  4. Re:life-long updates by ericloewe · · Score: 4, Funny

    Could be worse. Could be Wingdings.