Best way to protect my new WSO plugins source code?

by GaryCarlyle

Posted: 11 years ago 5 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

Hey folks,

I am launching a WSO soon. It is a Wordpress plugin for increasing traffic hits on autopilot and I have a few ideas how to protect the code from piracy but I was wondering if you nice people had any innovative ideas?

Thanks in advance.

#code #plugins #protect #source #wso

Social App Zone

11 years ago

You can obfuscate it, but at the end of the day nothing that is really visible via a browser or sold as a script can really be protected by anything but a legal agreement.

But if you put a gun to my head and said "protect at any cost". I would deploy each script with a unique ID that would ping a validation server to ensure that the ID and the calling URL matched a legit buyer.

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Steve Wells

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Social App Zone

Wouldn't that be expensive? Maybe more than its worth to actually protect the code? Just curious?

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Social App Zone 11 years ago

Originally Posted by Steve Wells

Wouldn't that be expensive? Maybe more than its worth to actually protect the code? Just curious?

Not really, it's a "call home" concept. The software simply calls a central location owned by the author to ensure it is valid to run. Common among high ticket software.
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GaryCarlyle

11 years ago

What yould you say the best way to obfuscate the script is?

I could do a call home but surely if its not obscured most people could just remove it manually?

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Social App Zone

11 years ago

Originally Posted by GaryCarlyle

What yould you say the best way to obfuscate the script is?

I could do a call home but surely if its not obscured most people could just remove it manually?

There are endless resources for this. This is a good reference:

Encode PHP Scripts

Nothing is perfect, but then unless your Plug-in promises to allow your users 1 minute of all Google Traffic per day, it's probably not high on the pirate list.

I would say the only sure way would be to put a majority of the functionality on your server called by an API. But then you need to ensure your server is up 101% of the time or you have angry clients.

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Best way to protect my new WSO plugins source code?

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