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Security through obfuscation isn't security at all.
Every trial period, every CD requirement, every aspect of operation is entirely changeable. You can make it harder, but the end-user CPU and storage media are not under your control. Your executable can be changed, protections disabled, or what have you. It does matter how the software you intend to purchase goes about "securing" your insructions...the same instructions (or some equivalent) at one point or another get executed in the same effective order, no matter what order or form they are stored in. All the instructions are sitting in memory as they execute, wide open to whatever kernel-mode facilities want to look at it, and that's just a hard fact about the way computers work.
With that considered, perhaps you will realize that such software is a waste of money.
I especially love how they advertise it as "bulletproof" and "unbreakable." Golden.
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