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 Post subject: Commercial possibilities and copyright protection
PostPosted: September 30th, 2008, 12:22 pm 
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Hi,

With some help on here I have come up with a publiction that may have some commercial posibilities. This in turn opens up some further questions.

My pub is in the form of a quiz, and will create text reports for the administrator. Am I right that if this is run off a USB stick then the reports can easily be written back to the stick? If it is run off a CD then the reports will need to go into the temp folder which introduces a level of complexity for the quiz administrator that I want to avoid.

Another advantage of the USB stick would be portability, in that the pub could be run from a variety of machines and still store all results to a central place.

I have done a search for copy protectio and have found a lot ot results, but they are all concerned with CD protection.

Is there any way of offering the pub on a memory stick and giving it some level of protection? I know that pretty much anything can be hacked but the risk here is low and so all I want is that a .exe pulled off the stick onto a PC wouldn't run and that a simple copy of the stick wouldn't run either, regardless of how easy it would be to circumvent.

Thanks

RB

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Initial response would be that you can force execution of the .exe from the USB drive itself. Been away for a while and need to refresh myself on Opus ways, but do contact me on eomc40<at>yahoo.co.uk and we can discuss further.
Once we come up with a working prototype, we u can post it for rest of folks who might need such functionality...
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