Question : Problem: protect my files from being copy!

I, WANT TO KNOW IF THERE IS A SOFTWARE OR SOME UTILITY THAT COULD PROTECT MY FILES IN MY COMPUTER OR WHEN I MAKE A CD COPY OF MY FILES, I ONLY WANT THEN TO BE READED BUT NOT TO BE ABLE TO BE COPIED! IF SOMEBODY TRYS TO COPY THE FILES WON'T WORK OR WON'T OPEN!

Answer : Problem: protect my files from being copy!

What you're asking is impossible. Because of the way computers work it can't happen. If you can access data and therefore read data you can always copy data. It's just impossible to stop people from copying binary code.

Anything can be copied, you can't stop people from copying things. But you can make it harder. Software, what is it? To me it's nothing and isn't worth anymore than 1 Australian dollar. It's made of binary digits being 0's and 1's and as long as computers can read these digits they can copy them.

If you're making software what you've got to do is encrypt the programs and make access codes to use them. However, what one intelligent person can make, another person of equal intelligence can find a way past it. So even the best ideas to stop software pirating won't work.

I don't like the software industry anyway. If I know someone know pirates software (and I know a few) there's no way I'll dob them in. Kids are the biggest software pirates. They'll make heaps of copies of games (thanks to cheaper high storage devices and hard drives) and trade and sell them to each other for a very small fraction of the original cost. Some kids make copies of games they have and trade them for other copies of games which they don't have and they keep doing this process until they've got a huge collection of over a hundred games. And all you need to do this is a high capacity storage device and a single full version game. The only downside is no manual and no box. The gaming industry is where pirating is at its worst because kids can so easily copy games.

The people who make software charge 100's and sometimes even 1,000's of dollars for something that costs less than a dollar to make. It costs nothing to copy a CD. And they're churning out CD copies effortlessly and making profits close to 100%. What I do hate is pirates who charge the original price for software.

I'm not a pirate but I respect and tolerate those that do pirate as long as they aren't using the ways of the real thieves (the one's who make the software and over charge). What do you need to make software? Time and Labour. Adding an extra 1 dollar charge to the copies made should be enough to pay for the time and labour.

I'll repeat that again.  Adding an extra 1 dollar charge to the copies made should be enough to pay for the time and labour. The biggest thieves of the 20th century would be those who started the software industry and tricked everyone into thinking that software is worth more than 1 dollar. And I'll repeat that other sentence again because it means alot towards what I'm saying.  Adding an extra 1 dollar charge to the copies made should be enough to pay for the time and labour.