Claimed CD-Protection

[Marc P.]

Originally posted by mnkysp6353
Ydnar everything is crackable. Even if you did do something along those lines there would always be a loop hole such as the corporate version of xp where no reg code is needed. There would also be a crack out the minute the software came out. As i said EVERYTHING can be cracked. There is really NO way of protecting software not even silly dongles.

I agree. For every software engineer working on security measures there are 10 software engineers somewhere in the world working on a way around it. But thinking realistically, the amount of people who actually know how to implement a crack is tremendously insignificant compared to the average person who knows merely "point, click, buy software, learn to use it." My theory- the amount of revenue lost by people who make use of cracks is insignificant compared to the net profit of people who purchase legitimate copies.

[Stev3298]

i agree mark

[AdamT]

One thing even forgoten....


Copying CDs doesn't always have to be illegal. If you copy a CD for your own back-up, it's not illegal. It becomes when you distribute that burnt CD that it is illegal. I don't know about you, but as a music freak, I have a lot of back up copies of my CDs because I don't want the CD to get scratched up.

[Wetzel]

Anything enginered can be reverse enginered.

[mnkysp6353]

There is nothing that is uncrackable. The best cracking teams in the world have cracks out for software the day its released. The crackers and hackers will always have the upper hand. There is just not enough software engineers. And this pitiful cdilla copy right protection that is given to max is crap. They leave themselves wide open.