raxbg Posted April 12, 2012 Share Posted April 12, 2012 Hi, I was wondering how to protect my module from stealing. Since I will sell this module how can I be sure that if one person buy it, he wont give it to a friend, or resell it for lower price? Sorry if this is not the right place for this question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellini13 Posted April 12, 2012 Share Posted April 12, 2012 i do not believe you can. the best you can do is to make them accept terms during the checkout, and to include a license in your module and tell them they must agree to it. however there is really no way to prevent or track the misuse. you could try to make the module call home to your server during any installs, and record the ip or make the user install a unique key that they register with you, but it would be easy to get around that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dh42 Posted April 12, 2012 Share Posted April 12, 2012 Making the module call home would be the worst thing you can do for business. I wouldn't ever use a module that compromised the security of a site knowingly. Plus you are putting yourself on the hook in case something goes wrong. Further more if you site is down so are all of your clients that you have sold modules to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellini13 Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 the module calls home during the installation of the module, just like most software you install on your computer these days. so the only risk is taken during the installation process, which the user would have to agree to when purchasing the module. let's not over exaggerate an issue that your site would be down, if the remote site is down. that is an easy exception to catch and ignore. i didn't say it was a good idea, in fact I implied it was a bad idea, because it's too easy to get around it, if the users intention is to share the module. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raxbg Posted April 17, 2012 Author Share Posted April 17, 2012 Thank you guys, sorry for replying so late, I was on vacation. Of course I thought of registering every user of the module, but as far as I remember I am not allowed to do that if I want my module in prestashop's addons catalog. So the best I can do is hope for the people to be loyal, I suppose Thanks again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dh42 Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 I would suspect the reason is because it is a security risk. Your best bet would be to add an arbitrary tag that would get indexed by search engines. Then google sites with that tag. It keeps everyone safe and secure plus lets you find people that did not pay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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