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An idea came to me and I had no idea wtf the solution is, or if there is even on. I saw a site that said "there are xxxx number of illegal copies being used right now". And I wondered, how the hell did they get that number?
The only thing I can think of would be some kind of phone home script hidden in there, but why wouldn't the crackers remove this? If they can phone home for that they should be able to disable the illegal software copies as well.
What do you think?
How do you detect the number of pirated copies of your software are being used?
Started by relapse, Sep 04 2009 07:11 AM
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Posted 04 September 2009 - 09:10 AM
BlaineSch
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It's probably just an estimate.
Depending on their way of registering the software, somebody could have realized the serial worked more than once, and once it registered online and they saw it they could have did a query to count duplicates.
Or it may visit a page to get certain things which may have tracking things no it, with that they can tell how many copies are out their VS how many they have registered.
Depending on their way of registering the software, somebody could have realized the serial worked more than once, and once it registered online and they saw it they could have did a query to count duplicates.
Or it may visit a page to get certain things which may have tracking things no it, with that they can tell how many copies are out their VS how many they have registered.
