Challenge on illegal distribution blockage

Hi, everybody.
This post is about a very discussed theme: protecting yor app
from copyright violations.
I have a problem with my client distribution model. It's
about delivering an app that is paid montlhy. The user creates a
username, pay and is allowed to use the app for a month.
The service is based on providing credit informations to a
broad business community. So as users can search private databases
for a month.
I don't want to suggest my client to charge users by each
search. We understand that the better distribution model is already
been practiced for a long time, and change this model is not on our
plans.
Once we're developing an easy-to-download-and-install Adobe
AIR software, the problem is to avoid that users can start sharing
the same username and password, paying just one license for
undetermined ammount of users.
As I said, one of the options is to charge on each search,
what could mean a failure for my client business.
So guys, any suggestions?
Regards,
CaioToOn!

You could implement a subscription service for an AIR
application the same as you would for a web application. I.e. when
the user access your search service, you validate that their
account is up-to-date. Just because AIR is easily downloaded and
installed doesn't change this aspect of the problem, especially
since it sounds like your users must be online to use your service
anyway.
Preventing multiple users from using the same account is also
much the same problem as with a web application in this instance. A
server-side approach might work for this too. If too many requests
are made by the same account from multiple IPs at the same time,
then you have reason to suspect that the terms of your subscription
are being violated.
There are ways to uniquely identify an instance of an AIR
application that could help you control access (e.g. by generating
random token on first use). But if your users typically search from
multiple computers, then it might be inconvenient for them to be
locked down to a single instance. If you chose this route, you
could, of course, allow the subscriber to "authorize" a limited
number of application instances as a way to balance respect for
your license with the convenience of your customers.

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