Re: RE: [PHP] Genus who came up with "Self Destruct Code" & "Copy Pro tection"

How are you going to do that with anything? If you develop this great website for someone, who's to stop surfers from getting your HTML source and replicating it elsewhere? Who's around to stop people from making and distributing copies of big name software? (Photoshop, Windows, Office, etc.) If Microsoft and Adobe can't come up with a fix for it, who can? Sure, you can compile/encrypt/obfuscate your source code, but what's to stop your client from giving that program to others, and those others from giving it to even more others, and so on? You know what helps? That's right, a written contract saying they won't do that. It's not bulletproof, but if you see a single copy of your program out there being used by someone else, you have legal grounds to sue your original client for any damages caused. Simple as that. Jason Soza ----- Original Message ----- From: Udo Giacomozzi <udonews@nova-sys.net> Date: Wednesday, May 8, 2002 0:39 am Subject: RE: [PHP] Genus who came up with "Self Destruct Code" & "Copy Pro tection" > solja@gci.net (Jason Soza) wrote in > news:90f358e63a.8e63a90f35@snowy.gci.net: > > Bottom line: written/signed money for services contracts, all > the time, > > will save your butt! > > > But what if you sell a product and you want to keep control of the > copies?How can contracts help you if you don't even know who > actually uses the > product and how many copies of it? > > For example, think you made a great bulletin board system and sell > it to > ISP's or webdesign companies. How can you control on how much > sites it is > really used? > > Udo > > > -- > Udo Giacomozzi - udonews@nova-sys.net > www.nova-sys.net - www.guweb.com > The disadvantage of intelligence is that one > is constantly obliged to go on learning. > > Posted by ELKNews 1.0.4-B > Empower your News Reader! http://www.atozedsoftware.com