I wanted to say what Kirk has said well. As a customer, if a company
is going to overbearingly copy-protect software i'll look for an
alternative. I understand a license number and maybe a key
generator, even a dial-in check to some home server. Dongles stink
but I have used software with them. This all works somewhat well and
is proven. You can always get around anything and I certainly would
think more than twice about any software that started messing with my
hard drive(s) at a very low level like this. Bad bad bad.
d.
On Oct 5, 2005, at 8:04 PM, Kirk Strauser wrote:
On Wednesday 05 October 2005 01:44 pm, Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
the company where I work (with Windows) is evaluating a copy
protection
product that stores info somewhere on the HDD where the [1] user
cannot
touch it, [2] a format will not erase it, [3] and Norton Ghost
will not find
it.
1) No such animal.
2) Ah - the bootblock, as others have mentioned.
3) Of course, that doesn't say anything about Ghost v$(current + 1).
To be blunt, your vendor is lying to you. At best, they can make
copying less
convenient than otherwise, but can't stop a dedicated cracker.
Why, then,
would you want to make life more difficult for your paying
customers while
barely slowing those capable of doing you the most harm?
One thing I learned while growing up through the C=64 and Amiga
days is that
copy protection never, ever, EVER works. Ever. Under no
circumstances. It
only makes your legitimate users (deservedly) hate you. Are you
sure that's
what your company really wants?
--
Kirk Strauser
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