How to do limited shareware number of times run?

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At some point, your game/app is gonna be distributed illegally, though, when you release it as shareware... cut a load of things from it, like file saving, certain options disabled... but still give the user enough to do so he/she can decide if your app is for him/her!!!

Also, make them register the product at a website, but get them to confirm their email address before they download, maybe give them a special little key... like Blitz does, so for any updates, they've got to register a UID!!!

At the end of the day, when releasing anything, including CD/DVD's, GAMES etc ect, you've got to trust your customers about how they use your product... And you've got to understand... everyone cannot be trusted!!!

Dabz

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