Another new copy protection.
Posted on 31/03/00 01:26 by Jan Willem                             
Another new copy protection.
Az-Tech Software, Inc. has announced its popular software-based copy protection system EVERLOCK, has just entered its beta cycle. This hardware/software combination lets developers protect their property by controlling licenses via setting and resetting date, execution or network limits.

EVERLOCK is capable of protecting software in three ways. First, it prevents the use of illegal copies of your original disk; secondly, it limits the number of working installs that can be made from your original disks; and finally, it virtually eliminates the possibility of "Reverse Engineering" by encrypting your protected software.

The Pro version of this system is capable of mass reproduction and protection within minutes of creating the program without changing any code, as EVERLOCK handles it all for you.

Through fingerprinting on each disk, EVERLOCK ensures that your program cannot be reproduced from the original disk that is shipped. It also offers a CD-ROM lock so that a user may install your program, but needs the original disk to continue to use the software.

Ideal for small businesses, you can create a disk with a limited number of installs, or create demos and trial software with date and execution limits. This system comes with several other forms of limiting software distribution as well.

For more information regarding pricing of this unique system, visit Az-Tech Software and read about it. Contact Michael Patterson for further inquiries for pricing and beta testing requirements.

Az-Tech has not yet made version 4.0 available for purchase, as it has just entered beta, but are instead offering version 3.21c.

Seems very complicated to crack, but also very unhandy to use with games.
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By Unknown, Friday 31 March 2000 17:25
Can you copy it with clonecd?
By Unknown, Friday 31 March 2000 17:56
Hey! How will it stop to install the game on more than 1 computer, a cd is read only!
I hope that this is an april fool or you can copy the shit with clone cd!
By Unknown, Friday 31 March 2000 18:20
Hmm, sounds difficult to crack, but they told also that Laserlock & Safedisc was
uncrackable, but we know for sure this wasn't true Big Grin
It just take some more time but every protection could be broken! keep this in mind.
By Unknown, Friday 31 March 2000 20:03
the more they say its impossible to crack, the more cracking groups will work on it. why do people climb the biggest cliff, ski the biggest slope?
By Unknown, Friday 31 March 2000 23:39
Hey, can a computer run encrypted code? NO!

Therefore, in order to run the original program must be decoded (either in part or whole). It's then just a case of dumping it to hard disk!

This was Armadillo's undoing (and safedisk I think) and it'll be EVERLOCK's undoing too!!!
By Unknown, Saturday 01 April 2000 15:13
If they limit the number of installs you can make from the original, that would really suck. Oops. Installed it 5 times already. Can't play it anymore.
By Unknown, Sunday 02 April 2000 23:27
Alles wat te maken is is ook na te maken, je kunt altijd een progje maken dat het tegen gaat zo iets als bijv. Generic SafeDisc Crack.

The are crazy that they are spending mony for copy protection the only way to hold on copy is to make the price cheaper.

That's all I want to say.

The MAzTER
By Guest, Thursday 13 December 2001 01:55
I don't get it why all those people try so hard to come up with new copy-protection techniques. Why don't they just give up. I can understand protection software a little bit. It offers some people a nice challenge and makes sure that people have hobbies Smilie But whatever they make, someone will eventually be able to undo it. And there is the protetion on audio-cd's. those protections will also be broken eventually. Now there is some way to make sure that cd's wont run on computers (so they couldn't be copied)... Yeah right. O my, it won't run on my pc, bummer. Well then, I will have to copy it with the build-in copier in my JVC tower.. well, that protection helps. O, damn, my tower is broken... hmm, only writer left is in my computer. Hey I know. Let's hook up my cd-player to my comp and record the songs with some programm. Voila, there goes the protection out the window. Bad quality? nah, my cd player has a digital out port and my comp a digital in. Even TNO wont know the diffirence in sound... Now my point is: give it up people, the only way to keep us from copying the stuff is making it not worth the effort. Make it cheaper, Madonna can only drive in one car at the time, she doesn't need five...
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