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> A well known wedding magazine ran a promotion with a valid licence key clearly visible in a photograph of a PerfectTablePlan CD. I worked through the night to
by tasuki 2y ago
> A well known wedding magazine ran a promotion with a valid licence key clearly visible in a photograph of a PerfectTablePlan CD. I worked through the night to release a new version of PerfectTablePlan that didn’t work with this key.
This is weird to me on several levels.
- Why would it require "working through the night" to blacklist a key? In large enterprise software, sure. But in a one-person project?
- If past versions still work with the leaked license key, what does this solve? If someone wanted to steal your software, they'd find a key anyway, no?
[Edit]: But a very cool project and a nice writeup! I enjoyed! Good luck!
- lozenge 2y agoI'm guessing CICD isn't a priority on a desktop product that doesn't need to be released all that often.
- tonyedgecombe 2y agoYou would be surprised how sales are affected by piracy. Making it just a little harder can have a noticeable impact. All that stuff you read about piracy having no commercial impact is bullshit used to make people feel better about what they are doing.