Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Protecting your comercial products?

Kagato98 opened this issue on Oct 06, 2002 ยท 22 posts


Kagato98 posted Sun, 06 October 2002 at 6:11 PM

Since I've been working on my labratory lately, I've been thinking of various ways on how to protect my product. Through the MP, I can't think of a way. However, If I were to sell stuff through my own site (something I plan on doing in the future) then I can think of several ways. It would be possible to leave little 'foot notes' in certain poser files without corrupting them. For each different user, I could generate a different foot note. I would have to do this manually, but I don't see that as much of a problem seeing as I won't have hundreds of people purchasing my items - the only drawback is not having an automatic download system. I've been thinking though - would it be possible to set up a CGI script or something similar to automatically leave a footnone in the poser file, and then zip it up? ( I vaguely know what CGI can do, but I have done no research in this field at all) . Lets just assume that I had left a footnote in the file, and had found it floating around the web - Obviously I could figure out where it came from. What would I be able to do then? What stops the warez person from saying their computer wasn't hacked into, or that someone didn't come over and take it from their computer without their knowing? Basically, if I found a way to add footnotes, what good would they do? I know it's a big question....Maybe this isn't even the right forum ;) . If that's the case, mods, feel free to move it.