Can't find the information you are looking for here? Then leave a message over on our WinBatch Tech Support Forum.
As far as compiled scripts go, any sufficiently determined hacker will defeat your copy-protection.
A couple of questions must be asked when you are considering implementing any sort of copy-protection:
As for methods of copy-protecting, are you looking to run an application from CD/DVD media only where the copy protection is on the disc itself, or are you more interested in some sort of license key type of protection? Also, live product-activation or use of a hardware dongle comes to mind, too, but again these methods have their own sets of problems that they introduce when used.
In the past, I've protected one compiled WinBatch script using a product registration key that was derived from an MD5 hash involving several pieces of information, some of which were public, some of which were provided by the customer and some of which were private & used internally in the script itself. The purpose was to enforce licensing terms for the software itself. The public information and the license-terms portion of the registration as well as the final MD5 hash of the information were all stored in a single text file used by the script at run-time to validate the user's license.
Article ID: W16453
File Created: 2005:02:18:12:20:50
Last Updated: 2005:02:18:12:20:50