Software Protection Thoughts

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Assume that you give a company a time limited copy of your software that
will expire on 12/31/05. Using this method allows a company to install it
on as many PCs as they wish with a single demo unlock code.(Software
Passport/Armadillo) You really cannot protect your software with time
limited trials if you cannot set the computer clock from an NTP source
during install. People can always set back the time on their PC. Once it
expires, they simply install it on another PC with the clock set back. So
then I suppose the best thing to do, is to require an internet connection
for software activation, where activation is simply syncing with an NTP
server during install. Does anybody have an easy way of doing this inside
of Setup Builder? (I didn't think that this was a real scenario until I
learned the hard way it was, and was being analyzed by a competitor.)

Jack T.