>Al
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>Thanks for all your effort and the “very to the point” information. Of course if I thought for a moment an .exe is something protected I would be very disappointed, in a hurry. The product I will be selling will retail for under $33.00. Let the hackers hack, let the pirates pirate.
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>I learned a long time ago watching the blunder made by Word Star and dBase. They pushed the security envelope, during that time, with a copy protection scheme said to be fool proof. Fools they were. 10 times more people learned WordStar and dBase from the hacked versions than all the valid versions, combined.
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>Eventually, the management and marketing staff of WordStar and dBase discovered they had viable customers in places the never imagined and never marketed towards.
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>From my view, the only copy protection is no copy protection. The only way to profit from your/my efforts is to continually develop and sell updates, upgrades, new versions. That way, I obsolete my own stuff and also any pirated versions.
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>One last comment. I will be selling this product in a 4.2, per year, billion dollar market. Just let me have my honest 1/10 of 1%. You do the math.

Good luck!