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

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @10:17AM 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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Re:life-long updates by Stormy+Dragon · 2013-03-20 11:01 · 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.