Hello Dwayne,

You haven't mentioned so I will assume your software will be running
on MS platforms and optimized for this.Since you are looking for a
strong licence methodology, you have to develop it your self.And this
is something you can not find here.This is a whole different area of
profession and information which is going to solve your problem is
some sort of commercial data.

> > IF someone decides that they want to share their copy with others **
> > AND ** if their copy somehow winds up in the wild, the person
> > responsible can be easily tracked.

This is completely wrong.

> Like Jake said, whatever software you add some kind of protection to
> it will be cracked.

This is wrong too.Although, not completely.

In my professional experiences none of the software protection
techniques have been %100 secure.In this point , you have to be more
creative and come up with a new protection hardening method.Since I
don't know the details of your project and the code , it is not
appropriate to make more comment.But counting on my 8 years of
experience, I can say that I developed protection techniques which did
really good job and still are in use.You have to developed a hardening
module so unique.if I don't have the notes and the source codes of my
techniques,at some of them, I may probably stuck somewhere in the code
and not able to crack it even now.But, depending on your softwares
functions,if someone or a company hires an experienced security
engineer or a professional software reverse engineer -as an abstract a
person who makes living from this job- to crack your code and -in
theory- eventually he is going to crack it.This is how things
work.Theoritically none of the software are %100 protected.Most of the
underground cracking groups have limited skills and background theory
on software protection.And according to the statistics softwares which
are cracked during the past 8 years use public and known protection
techniques.Another reason for this is that usual programmers do not
have strong security perspectives,they only do what they are focused
on.This is why IT and IS are different communities.

I hope you got my point.If you think your software is worth to invest
more,you can contact me.

Cheers.
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