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Originally Posted by blackmonsters
Stealing/piracy loses more money. Not even close. Please skip the Gideongallery
shit bro.
Sale something and get ripped, then re-read your own quotes.
It's encoded to stop people from stealing.
You say it doesn't work, but it does work for those that don't understand how to beat it.
You are basically telling programmers to "don't bother locking your doors at home,
because a good crook can get in anyway".
And everybody knows that there are more bad crooks than good ones.
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I'm not talking out of my ass here. You know I used to write and sell software, right? It was written in Perl so there was no easy way to encode it. I had a few hundred licensed domains running my scripts. My scripts did phone home and I did occasionally catch someone running a copy they weren't licensed for. Usually a quick email resulted in them buying the script or removing it from the server. I had to contact the host to deal with it a couple of times. Piracy on those scripts wasn't that big of an issue.
Really though, these encoded scripts can't be run on a current version of PHP. I paid for the scripts. The encoding is preventing a legit customer from using what they paid for and that's fucked up. If they weren't encoded I would still be able to use what I bought.
I am never buying another encoded script...ever. Whoever encodes their software can forget me buying their scripts. That's a guaranteed lost sale. You act like every illegal copy of a script is a lost sale. Most of the people who steal software likely would never purchase anyway.
Zend encoding is not a reliable way to protect code anyway since it can be broken so easily. For instance, core.php from uugallery took me about 2 seconds to crack. How is that protecting anything?