what can prevent software theft?
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The most effective way to prevent software theft is to make software people do not want to steal.  Alas, this is not a profitable venture.\n\nGenerally, it costs more to keep the crackers out than you gain from keeping them out.  Your best bet is to use a simple serial number type solution.  Almost any solution you use can be broken by just making copies of the CD and a CD key.  CD ISOs (digital copies of CDs) can easily be produced and copied onto CDs by pirates.  There are tricks to prevent this but most of them will cause a few legitimate customers to find that your CDs won't work on their systems.  Many of the techniques used to prevent software theft anger the legitimate users.
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Yes there is.  I recently purchased it for my new Dell laptop.  When you buy it, the software comes with either 3 or 4 years of coverage, depending on the version you buy.  If you're interested, you can go to http://www.lojackforlaptops.com  It is a good idea if you're taking your computer into a lot of public settings.\n\nWhat it does is if your computer gets stolen, you report it and then the company tracks it the next time the person logs on the internet with it.  They guarentee to get your laptop back in a month, and they take care of all the legal footwork.
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This is a classic problem that never be resolved. Imagine: There are so many great programmers in Microsoft, but we can easily copy Microsoft Products, don't we? Or another xample: There are some protection software but we can copy that software by using crack or illegal serial numbers. Very sad. You can try to use simple protection like serial number, medium protection like CD protection, or use hard protection like activation software. But, all methods mention above can be broke by cracker, hacker, etc. In my humble opinion, you can try to make custom software for one company. Give them good supports. If another companies want to use your programs, just change several text in source code, and then re-compile it for that company. Very annoying, but effective.
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The margin must be higher because software is easily stolen (pirated). It is hard to put a desktop tower under ones coat and walk out of a store.
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So what you are asking is for people to help you steal software. \nWhy don't you get a job, make some money and buy the program? It's people like you , who have no sense of decency, who are making this world a worse place to live. Betcha pirate music also, don't you? If you can't afford to buy it, you don't need it.\nAt least you have a 360 profile, so the powers that be can easily track you down, you pirating scum.\n\n\nIdiot.
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Hello.\n\nIf you are significantly concerned about theft of personal images, I recommend that you contact a copyright attorney and have your website copyrighted. While software may help you prevent theft, anyone can still steal images with a few special techniques.\n\nHowever, by actually copywriting your site, the images are legally protected. This means that anyone who steals them can be sued for damages. Also, having a real copyright is often important when asking a website to shut down an offender's site.\n\nToo often people try and protect their sites with software and forget the legal aspect. I recommend that you not be one of them.
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The software you are using is the key.  What are you using?
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Perhaps decentralised software (e.g. programs that you use through your browser and therefore don't install locally). A good example of this is at [1].
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You can buy an original copy from the "Symantec" (legal)\n[or you can setup a sharing software (something like "Kaza", "DC++", "imesh"... etc.) then search for it at the others PCs. (illegal !)]
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You need antivirus and antispam software. Try Norton Antivirus or McAfee. That'll keep your computer safe.
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So what you're telling us is that you're gonna violate copyright laws and send an illegal copy of the program to people so that they can get arrested for software piracy. Is that right?\n\nNo thanks
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you need folder security. a software use to protect folders. there are many software like this..,
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You may loose some of your installed software but not your documents.........be sure
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I don't think you can prevent it.\n\nThere are setting that will get around  and also plug-ins or programs that will copy anything.\n\nstef\n\n\nps  I tried to reply to your email but got errors but thank you for your comments back.\nbye
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Anything that is not copyrighted. Open source software.
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figure out what types of games they are bringing in and restrict those types of files from executing.  you could cut back the user permissions on the systems to read only access. (so they can't add to anything on the computer, but can still execute existing programs.
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you cannot prevent viewing or copying or saving of the rendered source code.\n\nYou would have to have control at the server level.\n\nSince you have no control over that server, there's nothing you can do to stop right clicking.