Create shareware or freeware licenses quickly

[bouce]

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Create software keys and launch your shareware
or freeware in a couple of minutes with full
licensing features.

Keybuster is now online and provides
an unique FREE key license service on
www.keybuster.com

You simply use the free library, and create a
free key and embed code like: {if key=valid then
continue}

If somebody wants to buy your software,
they receive a new key,
that you can create at Keybuster.com yourself

Buyer can paste that key in your software and
they have an registred application.

This service is free for keys with an period of 30
days.

There are currently samples online for vb6,
vb.net, php,
streaming video and audio, excel, python on
forum.keybuster.com
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[Al Klein]

This service is free for keys with an period of 30
days.

So is this really demo-ware?

 

[J French]

So is this really demo-ware?

Actually my first impression was that it is a 'phishing' scam

 

[Mike Archer]

Actually my first impression was that it is a 'phishing' scam

I thought it was a genuine, but crap idea at trying to make money on the
internet. The guy probably thinks he's got a brilliant service that will
make him rich. I doubt anyone intelligent enough to program would sign
up, and people using 'game makers' can't add a line of code to their
product. Being realistic, any business idea that resorts to posting on
usenet to make money is crap.

 

[posting]

You can assume anything, and write anything,
but intelligent people will CHECK IT OUT before they draw conclusions.

Their services are Free for 30 days shareware keys and trail keys.
If you want a Key that is valid 365days yes the charge is 2 euro.
For that they maintain the Key in the usage Statistics and database
forever.
(If that is "making money and becoming rich"
you might consider if your life standard is below average, Mike)

When you create a Keybuster Key you gain full control over the contents
of the key
and the communication between your software and Keybuster.
There is nothing suspicious or negative to report about it.

I am using the Keys in my demo software that i give to customers.
Often this demo software already is a copy of the final program and
i wanted to make sure they can not use it, if they will not buy.
So now i just use the 30days keys and they expire automaticly.
If they want to buy the software i change the key validation period and

some other settings and they have a full licensed version.

 

[Mike Archer]

You can assume anything, and write anything,
but intelligent people will CHECK IT OUT before they draw conclusions.

Their services are Free for 30 days shareware keys and trail keys.
If you want a Key that is valid 365days yes the charge is 2 euro.
For that they maintain the Key in the usage Statistics and database
forever.
(If that is "making money and becoming rich"
you might consider if your life standard is below average, Mike)

When you create a Keybuster Key you gain full control over the contents
of the key
and the communication between your software and Keybuster.
There is nothing suspicious or negative to report about it.

I am using the Keys in my demo software that i give to customers.
Often this demo software already is a copy of the final program and
i wanted to make sure they can not use it, if they will not buy.
So now i just use the 30days keys and they expire automaticly.
If they want to buy the software i change the key validation period and

some other settings and they have a full licensed version.

As I said already, companies that post adverts to usenet have little
offer, I've yet to be convinced otherwise. If you genuinely use this
service and aren't just posting to promote the site also, maybe you
could post a link to the demo version of your software, so we can see
how the system works in action, and how secure it is against hacking.
Though I'd still like to know what functions it can offer freeware
authors....

 

[posting]

as you wrote... i do not need to promote my software.. so your request
is as
contradictionary as writing: "it it illegal to crack my software" and
then
issue a reward to people if they can crack your software.

I do not want to spread my software to the common people, not only it
is too big to simply download,
also, it is CUSTOM made software.
Hence, when i do not want my software to run anymore when a customer
refuses to pay for it,
i simple disable the key and he can't use it anymore.

If you really want samples, and you just have a little time: go to the
forum.keybuster.com
and pick one of the many samples in VB.NET, VB6, PHP, EXCEL, HTML,
Python........
and give it your best shot.

Nice though, that you admit, you did not check it out before you posted
your negative opinion here about a product. I think i really
appreciated that.

 

[Mike Archer]

as you wrote... i do not need to promote my software.. so your request
is as
contradictionary as writing: "it it illegal to crack my software" and
then
issue a reward to people if they can crack your software.

I do not want to spread my software to the common people, not only it
is too big to simply download,
also, it is CUSTOM made software.
Hence, when i do not want my software to run anymore when a customer
refuses to pay for it,
i simple disable the key and he can't use it anymore.

If you really want samples, and you just have a little time: go to the
forum.keybuster.com
and pick one of the many samples in VB.NET, VB6, PHP, EXCEL, HTML,
Python........
and give it your best shot.

Nice though, that you admit, you did not check it out before you posted
your negative opinion here about a product. I think i really
appreciated that.

I did read the website, I never found any examples of how the system
works in practice, nor did I find any detailed description of how the
system works. Just lots of claims with little to back it up. I still
stand by my comment a company with a good product does not resort to
spamming usenet for customers.

I find it hard to grasp that you have software that is not available to
download, yet you require an online key system to protect it. Surely
under such circumstances, a program that simply expires after 'n' number
of uses and also contains data within the code that is altered for each
customer and uniquely identifiable would be enough protection.

Protecting software is relatively easy, so is hacking it. If you use a
common protection system shared with other authors your software is much
more likely to be cracked. Write your own system and you are much more
safe.

But again, I must make the point, this post was made to a freeware
newsgroup, and I can't see why any author of freeware would have any
requirements to such a system...