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John Gill Photography
Inspiring
August 8, 2011
Question

Trial or Time limited versions

  • August 8, 2011
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Hi

Is there any (simple) way to create a time limited version of a compiled script file? For example 30 days or 10 uses etc?

If there's nothing built in does anyone know of any 3rd party solutions?

Thanks for your time.

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Paul Riggott
Paul Riggott
Inspiring
August 8, 2011

You could write the date out to a file and check this file each time the script is run.

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John Gill PhotographyAuthor
Inspiring
August 9, 2011

Would not changing the system date get around this?

Paul Riggott
Paul Riggott
Inspiring
April 8, 2012

Hi Paul!

Assuming the users do not reset their system timing. What is preventing them from looking up the key and changing the start date?

Could there be a way to encrypt the "key" so that no one can access the it? Like a password only the script knows.

I am guessing that so far, no script has been so valuable that it can be sold??


Yes it could be encrypted as an extra precaution, but as the script will be in binary (should be) the user would have to find the registry entry associated with the script and then they would not know the registry was being used as the vb file is deleted after it has been run.

This would script would stop most users, but there are always some clever people out there that can crack it.

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