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Copy Protection - How it works

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All-In-One Protector offers a media independent protection - the media itself like CD / DVD, download link or USB flash drive is not modified or protected. The copy protection does not prevent, that you can copy the data from CD to the hard disk but it prevents that the application can be started on multiple machines.

 

The license is bound to a specific hardware ID of the PC (e.g. MAC address). The All-In-One Player will start only, if the license file is located on the specified hardware. This works both in a single user environment and in a network environment.

 

The advantage of a software copy protection is:

 

media independent - distribute the application via CD / DVD, download, USB flash drive or other media where you can store files

the application can run without a CD / DVD inserted

you can produce even one single CD - no need to have 1000 CDs duplicated at once

no problems with the CD / DVD drives or operating systems because no physical modification (like modification of the CD) is done

 

The additional step, which is necessary, is to transfer the hardware IDs. With Online activation, this step is automated. With activation by e-mail, fax or phone this is a manual process.

 

A lot of different hardware IDs are supported depending on your requirements. Details as well as pros and cons about each criteria can be found in Part II - Details about Copy Protection

 

Copy Protection is enabled automatically (default option), but it is possible to make a full version without Copy Protection (see: How to protect the content but do not use Copy Protection?) and to protect the content only.