after year and half I’m wondering if you’re still using Themida or how did this story end?

Waiting for final conclusion….
Thank you!

Care to explain a little about ‘more incompatibility problems have appeared’ and having stopped using Themida?

You’ve kind of killed the entire post/thread with that remark.

The Internet is a big place… but it almost seems like a business opportunity for someone to create a ‘crack sweeper’ service on the ‘net… that developers might subscribe to for a nominal fee… if one could somehow ‘sweep away’ (terminate) the (availability of) specific cracks.

@Alexander, the question is interesting as anthropological studies have shown this phenomenon to exist, however, if you could protect an investment from theft (yes, piracy is absolutely and totally theft, there is no other definition for it), especially a product that garners the interest of *millions* of users, wouldn’t you?? Closed source, proprietary software is not a common resource like public parks or public lakes, and it is an atrocity that it is treated as such…

People have thrown concern over the program due it using Thermida and this thread was linked.

Alexander Gieg has assumed, for some reason, that you created the software being given away.

To answer your question: no, sales didn’t go up while using Themida.
In the meantime, more incompatibility problems have appeared, so we have stopped using Themida for most of our products.

BTW: the cost of Themida is of course negligible… that was never an issue.

I mean, from what I understand there are basically four groups of people out there when it comes people who want to use a specific non-free software:

a) Those who’ll pay for it no matter what, even if a cracked version is easily available;

b) Those who want it bad enough they’ll pay for it *if* they cannot get a cracked version;

c) Those who, similar to ‘b’, want it badly enough they would pay for it, but who don’t have the money anyway, so they just won’t use it if they cannot get a cracked version;

d) Those who like it enough to use it if a cracked version is available, but who wouldn’t care not being able to use it at all if only the paid-for version is available.

Since ‘a’ are always-paying customers, and ‘c’ and ‘d’ are always-non-paying non-customers, it’s quite evident then that the only group that makes a financial impact is ‘b’, as they are the only ones that would switch from non-paying to paying.

Hence, my question would be more precisely stated thus: if you take the effective sales of softwares for the months April to July, then subtracts from this the originally projected sales for the period, then subtracts from the result the cost of Themida itself, is the end result noticeable enough to make it worth implementing?

I’ll also be moving to Winlicense in the next month.

The module which detects those monitor tools will not be present. Just that protection is taken out, that should not affect the global security of your application.

Sounds like a good solution to the ProcMon issue then.
I will ask Ronald to switch off that setting for the next builds of all our programs.