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Protecting Application From Piracy
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12/01/2013 14:32:04
 
 
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12/01/2013 01:56:53
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP2
OS:
Windows XP
Network:
Windows XP
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Application:
Web
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01562284
Message ID:
01562320
Views:
97
>Hi Everybody.
>
>I have an application and I wish that it should not be pirated.
>
>In order to do that, I thought to use used the concept of Hardware locking system and used CPU ID as unique feature and incorporated the code that If the system is not having the particular CPU id, my application will not run on that.
>
>However, now I found many CPU have same ID my concept failed.
>
>Kindly help that how to make my application run on a designated PC only and way to stop piracy of my VFP application.
>What would be code to do That ?

You can gather the same information that Microsoft uses for anti-piracy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Genuine_Advantage#Data_collected

Use Google to get code samples.
Regards. Al

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