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Preventing Excel Product Piracy or Illegal Giveaways
I sell Excel-based software quite successfully. Delivery is as an *.xlt template file. However, my educational customers like to pass it around, for example, if I sell a copy to a student in Sao Paulo, I could get a support question from a student in Buenos Aries a few months later..., it happens everywhere, even the teachers do it, piracy is rampant in edu-media. Can anyone help with suggestions on how I can presonalize and prevent piracy and freebies and being ripped off - by using VBA within the product, or by other means. Walkenbach and other Excel software vendors do it. How can I? See us at SummitPK.com and remember, when driving in the West, "Watch for falling rock!" -- fallingrock ------------------------------------------------------------------------ fallingrock's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=25756 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=391692 |
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Good afternoon Fallingrock Excel is not a secure development platform and has never been advertised as such. Any form of password protection in Excel can be bypassed in one way or another - and if students are passing your templates between themselves they will pass on the password. A knowledgeable user would be able to remove any kind of protection using VBA literally within seconds. Incidentally, John Walkenbach does not protect the add-ins he supplies - his view being that attempts at protection can be bypassed and only serve to hamper legitimate customers. It seems to me that piracy is rampant on any digital media, be it software (any type), music, films etc and as long as someone is sharp enough to develop a method of protection, someone else will be sharp enough to cripple it. HTH DominicB -- dominicb ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dominicb's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=18932 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=391692 |
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