Copy protection software - Top Ten Vendors Questions.

Having considered all of the issues, you will have hopefully narrowed down the list of potential copy protection vendors to a more manageable size.

At this point, you should be able to work your way through the shortlist, evaluating the companies according to your criteria.

If the SDK vendor you are evaluating lets you download its SDK for testing, beware.

This is how all the hackers access such systems to analyze and crack the software. Serious vendors will never allow this in order to prevent unauthorized users gaining access to their code.

It pays to search the Internet, to see if the copy protection has been cracked.The detail in the answers to these questions is what counts – you need to dig deep into the answer to understand the real ramifications to you of the exact solution they are offering.

No means No, when they say the security fails BUT it’s easy to re-license, this a question of opinion, your customers may not agree. Users hate finding your old license keys, login names, purchase details and any other required proof of purchase.

Nalpeiron passes them ALL - We offer a 30 day guarantee to prove it.

	How long is your money back guarantee?
	Is the support in our language? Where are you located?
	Has your software been broken or cracked?
	Will your protection survive a Windows HDD re-format? fdisk? re-partition?
	Will your protection survive the use of Norton Ghost?
	Will your protection survive the changing of any hardware in the users PC i.e. Lan card, motherboard, cpu etc?
	Will your protection survive re-booting in safe or administrator mode and resetting parameters?
	Will your protection survive when the admin "locks down" the system, will the limited users software still work?
	Will your protection survive re-loading Windows or a non-permanent hard disk crash where the Windows "User" details are lost.
	Will your protection survive the user finding the copy protection files, registry entries, codes, parameters and changing them to render the security useless?

Print this page and add it to your 'purchasing' process.

See "Justifying the cost: a word on ROI" for the next part of the story...