Originally posted by cwm
Originally posted by Sacofjoea
If your program is on someones wish list and they dont have enough money to buy it, then it will eventually be cracked...
heh.. i dunno bout that.. maybe "If your program isn't free, then it will eventually be cracked" would be more accurate
The ABSOLUTLY BEST way to prevent cracking, is to just NOT include parts of the program in the shareware version. Like, just remove menus totally, or cut the code out of MyMenu_Click() or MyButton_Click(). Then when the people register, they can get the whole program by email, snail mail, or something like that. The registered program could also be encoded with a CPU id or something like that to prevent distribution of the full version. Getting the CPU id is easy, just create a registration program or something like that...