Protecting without EXE wrapping

[TippeX]

alpha rom works on dvd movie format afaik..

so think if the exe's you have are really needed, or could you do it better/another way using dvd menus...

drm (digital rights managment) works on licenses, where if the person does not have the license to view the movie... they cant view it, you're using avi format, so you can put drm in it

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...s/drm/faq.aspx

£15 on each set might be too low though, as for the usb dongles, all they can really do is provide code protection - so again, only protecting exe's, memory isnt really a matter here...

realistically i think you have an issue here on cost / profit vs. cost of applying protection, with such a low volume, commercial protection might be 'out of your league'

[pikachu5501]

when i sell my own product to companies, i use what i call "personalized digital fingerprint". I hide somewhere a personalized number on the exe and some of the overlay/data file that will be shiped to the constomers. Of course, there are aware that the copies a personalized in some way and if i find they copy elsewhere, there will get they ass sued.

Not usefull though if you want to make mass distribution of you product.