Quote Originally Posted by waran
Unless you do something very creative any premade protection can be broken easily.
So if you want to create pay-software you should think of a method which is as bizarre and unusal as possible.

If you aren't willing to invest such an efford you can also distribute your
shareware app unprotected - its actually the same but less work for you.
actually .. yesterday I came up with this idea: make a USB stick with the game imprinted in it, make it so that the data can not be written to a hard drive or any other storage medium (maybe encrypted??) but only can be read from the usb stick. Then we have a splendid c.p. system. Like a mini cartridge.