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I really like licensing models of one-time payments with a pre-defined duration of updates. But I wonder how they enforce it while not making internet access a

I really like licensing models of one-time payments with a pre-defined duration of updates. But I wonder how they enforce it while not making internet access a requirement for the app.

8organicbits 3y ago
I've been planning to use a non-enforcement model for a future project. Some users will always pay, because of corporate policy or ethics. Some will never pay and will reverse engineer out any software license checks. Asking the user if they have a license keeps the honest ones honest and permits ad-hoc free trials, emergency use, and other reasonable "unlicensed use".
- userbinator 3y ago
  Some will never pay and will reverse engineer out any software license checks. For a long time (and might still be; not paying much attention anymore), it was a "rite of passage" in the scene to crack IDA... using itself.
  - mrexodia 3y ago
    It never was a “rite of passage”, because removing IDA’s license checks has always been trivial…
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