> How about we try to figure out how to make the legal > way Easy and Painless, rather than trying to figure > out how to make software installation/usage (even) > more complex and difficult?
I don't see why making the distribution or installation of warez more difficult would NEED to be making the installation of legal stuff more difficult, and why making installation of 'warez' harder and making installation of legal software easier couldn't be attempted at the same time. I can imagine at least a couple of ways for the copy protection to work invisibly to the legal user, in the worst case resulting in a 0.5 second delay required to exchange a couple of data packets with the server. Even if some kind of post-install activation is used, it does not need to be the oldfashioned way (keying in a code) but it can also be done automatically. And how easy installation from the store is will mostly depend on how well the store (and its client) is made, not on whether there is a (well made) copy protection or not. In case of the Nokia store there was absolutely no copy-protection, but so what if the store itself was flawed and permanently troubled with dozens of technical issues. Two of my applications had a problem that people could buy (pay for) them but not download them and it took Nokia A MONTH to fix it while lots of customers kept calling me names and demanding money back. I don't think that even the worst copy-protection can result in a user experience as bad as on the Nokia store without any copy-protection... Cheers, Michal _______________________________________________ SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list
