At 02:21 AM 3/23/2007, Philip Pemberton wrote: >All I'm going to say is, you can generally do what you want, but many >customers will actively avoid your product if they feel the licensing method >is too obstructive. Don't use Product Activation or anything that modifies >hard disc sectors (read: anything like the Macrovision protection systems). I'm actually quite against any form of copy protection, whether it be software or dongle based. I actively avoid software vendors who resort to those measures and assume that many others think as I do. Instead, I want to try and make the purchaser of the software be able to be held accountable should they decide to share with the world. There is a difference. Copy protection assumes that all users are thieves. I don't believe that for a moment. That said, there *are* thieves out there. It is those people whom I would like expose. More than anything, I am looking at this as a deterrent. Don't post the software on a warez site because bad things will happen if you do. I see that I have lots of other comments to read through - please bear with me as I do so. dwayne -- Dwayne Reid Trinity Electronics Systems Ltd Edmonton, AB, CANADA (780) 489-3199 voice (780) 487-6397 fax Celebrating 22 years of Engineering Innovation (1984 - 2006) .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .- `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' Do NOT send unsolicited commercial email to this email address. This message neither grants consent to receive unsolicited commercial email nor is intended to solicit commercial email. -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist