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I was waiting for this

Thanks to Felix for the info!

https://www.neowin.net/news/class-action-lawsuit-filed-against-microsofts-github-copilot-for-software-piracy/

... the APK file, no need to get it from the store. In this case, this is fine as we can ask a reasonable price for it, and we can implement software piracy control on it (requiring a login and password to work, related to the serial number of the device). Is this possible on WIndows Tablets ? I think ...

I would just like to clarify my initial post: I'm not encouraging piracy, just saying that when Microsoft made the release of Windows 8 on my country, said she would have a special discount for pirate copies, and now it was reported by several blogs, pages ...

Silvio,

samples\protect.prg checks that a specific USB pendrive is plugged in.

Its not related to the files in the pendrive. Its related to protect (anti-piracy) a PC EXE checking for a specific pendrive plugged in.

For anyone who's been using an older version of Protection Plus Professional anti-piracy and licensing software, and who needs to upgrade to the latest version from SoftwareKey.com, for FWH you will need a couple files that you can download from the link below. SoftwareKey.com, ...

... from TRANSPARENT to OPAQUE. Now it is ok. * Fix: Class TMenu Method Add() minor fix for showing the menu as "float". * New: FWH provides anti-piracy system based on a standard USB pendrive. Please review samples\Protect.prg for the full source code, ready to be included in your applications. ...

FWH 7.12 is going to provide several functions to use a USB pendrive as anti-piracy protection system. Please run this test with a pendrive (plugged or unplugged): http://www.hotshare.net/file/16342-6394189d08.html There is no way to clone the USB and even if ...

A bit out of topic, if the friends here dont mind answering me. I used to think that piracy and unauthorised use / distribution of software are problems only developing countries like mine ( India ). Is it a problem in developed countries too? like canada or usa ? ...

Silvio, We do not provide our library C source code to avoid piracy. Our commitment with our customers is that if our company closes, all our customers will receive the full source code (PRg and C) of our product, same as other companies like Class(y) ...

... and now work with xHarbour. However, from what I have seen and read, the FiveWin demo only works with 16 bits. I understand their concerns re piracy, but it makes testing FiveWin difficult using the 16 bit version when ultimately I will be using 32 bits. Regards, Ken

Mr.Areang Thanks for your suggestion. The method we were discussing above is one among many ways to protect the piracy to some extent (not fully!). By the way do you any functions which can return the information about "motherboard serial number or information from BIOS of CMOS ...