Does eStore provide anti-piracy protection?

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Does eStore provide anti-piracy protection?

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okgood
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I really like all the features of the eStore, but I was unable to find any mention of anti-piracy protection. Specifically, I would like to be sure that if a user buys my digital product (let's say it's a eBook), then does eStore offer anything to prevent this user from giving it to his friend to read (for free)? I know the friend can't download it using the same link, but that doesn't stop the user from uploading it elsewhere or emailing to around to others.

If not, do you know of any good (and inexpensive) products that help to avoid this?

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

Posted 1 year ago #
amin007
Key Master

Nope. I don't know if this is possible for eBook. If it was a software then you could introduce a serial key activation option which would lock it down to one user.

One way to discourage sharing of eBooks is to stamp the PDF file with the customers information (name, email address etc) in the footer. I haven't seen any WordPress plugin that does this though... I am working on a solution for this but it won't be ready for a few more weeks.

Posted 1 year ago #
MMorgan
Member

I'm very interested in this feature. We looked at commercial solutions that were thousands of dollars yearly.
I have used an app called drawloop to formfill pdf files via salesforce. it's hosted, but very effective.

Posted 1 year ago #
amin007
Key Master

Stay tuned for my upcoming plugin :)

Posted 1 year ago #
gobbledegeek
Member

Can anyone offer recommendations for preventing a paying customer from passing a software download on the others?

Posted 1 year ago #
amin007
Key Master

The best way to completely secure a software is to have online verification. This ensures that a copy of the software will only be used by the person who purchased it.

Posted 1 year ago #
Frank
Member

Hey Amin,

I'm actually surprised that you haven't put on your dev hat and built this yet!

Frank

Posted 1 year ago #
gobbledegeek
Member

How about the delivery of a digital key based on customer's Mac address or IP?

Customer downloads the trial, after a month he's prompted to purchase whereby a unique key is generated, based on Mac code which unlocks the software and restrict it to that machine.

Posted 1 year ago #
amin007
Key Master

Hey Frank, Good to hear from you! what do you think I am using for my PDF Stamper to limit who can use the plugin? :P

http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wp-pdf-stamper-plugin-2332

I have developed something that you can use to make your web application only work after a successful online serial key verification but it's not ready for release yet (I have a few things that I am working on and it's taking all my time).

Posted 1 year ago #
amin007
Key Master

@gobbledegeek, yep something like that will definitely work for desktop applications. If you have a script with the algorithm that generates the number then I can investigate how it can be hooked with eStore so after the payment it uses the script to generate the key and send it to the customer.

Posted 1 year ago #

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