Any ebook publishers tried Hyprlock?

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Any ebook publishers tried Hyprlock?

I tried searching for reviews of this product on google, but the entire first 2 pages where either labed 'scam' or 'review' and were simple copy and paste of the product description from the home page with affiliate links.

Only useful thing I could find was a fairly detailed review of how the product works on the technical side from ebay review but nothing else.

It seems to be a standard exe converter for PDF files with added encryption to prevent users from hacking the base PDF owner/user password and altering the content of the PDF. Unlike other services, its a 1 time payment and it seems that once the product is issued to the customer they'll never have a problem using the document as it is not reliant on dedicated data servers for authentication.

Anyway, any experiences or feedback would be helpful. Thank you!
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  • Profile picture of the author David Hooper
    No DRM is 100% effective, but one thing is never fails at is making life hard on honest customers. In my opinion, you're better off putting your energy into making things easier to buy than steal.

    Learn from the music business.
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      • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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        Every time this has been discussed here (and I've started threads about it, myself - I don't mean about the Hyperlock product specifically, just the broader issue of product security in general), I've learned/re-learned five main things ...

        (i) Some internet marketers hate .exe-file e-books, they believe that Mac users can't read them, they don't want to open them themselves and they believe that customers don't want to open them either - some even believe that their customers would need to be connected to the internet just to read one (much of this stuff isn't actually true at all, but it's what people believe, and sometimes the perception is more significant than the reality);

        (ii) Other internet marketers have sold tens of thousands of .exe-file e-books - probably not to internet marketers! - without anyone ever requesting a refund for that reason (though I'm sure they make it clear on the sales page, before people pay, that it's a .exe-file e-book);

        (iii) Some people - strangely - believe that the fact that there's no such thing as "total security" means that the high relative security you can easily arrange isn't worth having (not easy to account for this view, at all, but apparently it's the kind of thing that some people believe);

        (iv) Some people believe that "if people are going to steal your e-book or download it illegally, they were never going to be paying customers anyway" and that because of that, your financial loss caused by thieves is actually negligibly small (this one's total nonsense, of course: the world is full of people who will look around for an illegal download of an e-book they want but then buy it if they can't find one - and people who don't accept that just don't live on the same planet as me);

        (v) There are even people who think that being concerned enough about this issue to want to discuss it at all is "negativity" (bit of a weird one, there - can't quite account for it: I always feel like asking them if they lock their front doors when they go out, or whether they regard that as "negativity"! :p ).

        Protecting your download-page is one thing ... but of course that doesn't stop anyone who's bought the e-book from circulating it, uploading it to torrent sites, and so on. (In other words, on its own, it isn't really of much use at all).

        The two main options, it seems, are ...

        (a) Use a .exe-file instead of a PDF, or ...

        (b) Use something like e-Junkie's "stamp-device" which stamps the buyer's personal details and transaction number on each page of a PDF before they download it, in an attempt to discourage "sharing". This - it seems to me - may actually be the better option, depending on your perception of whether or not your potential customers are willing to buy and use .exe-files.
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  • Profile picture of the author Christophe Young
    Coming from someone who used to spend way too much time trying to figure out how to protect ebooks, I can honestly say it's not worth your time.

    Just write it up, save as a PDF, and get it out there! Securing the PDF file without a password and protecting the download page is really as far as you need to go.

    You can then set up google alerts for your ebook title and see if someone has uploaded it to torrent sites.

    IF that happens, you can try sending Ceast and Desist letters to the host but even that can be a waste of time. People are always going to find a way to steal ebooks. You just want to make sure most of your potential customers don't know where to find it for free.

    After I made the switch from selling ebooks using DRM software to PDF ebooks, I saw no drop in sales.
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