CaptFalcon33035 wrote:

Because, you can register their key. When they buy the game, they can be given a code. You can ban the code or the key. That way, to play the game, you'd be required to buy it again. That is the best form of protection for a BYOND game, but who is going to buy a BYOND games, and if the game is good enough to be bought, who is just not going to buy it again?

Hey, I wonder if Kajika has something like that. in theory can't a game be programmed to asign each Byond application with a "hidden" identification number, that is placed in a non Byond file(so it can't be located), therefor downloading a new Byond application has no affect. He does say that he uses another ban system in addition to the ones I listed.

CaptFalcon33035 wrote:

You should actually not have write access outside of BYOND folders. I thought that was fixed a couple of versions back.

I don't know, infact I didn't even know Byond had write access out of Byond folders to begin with, or they didn't allow it to for that matter, it was a long shot theory based idea.

People can definitely change their IP to outside the range, or if not, do something quite to that extent, too, y'know. All forms of bans are 'bypassable' so to speak, it's just the difficulty that matters. Best form is probably to grab info unique about the player's system, such as hardware IDs and identify him by that, then most will have to change whatever hardware you're using to bypass it. But I don't think you can do that with BYOND... perhaps something with javascript.

its 5 keys to 1 email

That said, how do you know what a key's email is? Unless I missed something, you have the option of hiding your email at creation.

CaptFalcon33035 wrote:

You should actually not have write access outside of BYOND folders. I thought that was fixed a couple of versions back.

They do if you use a mix of HTML and Scripting.

Zoltor wrote:

Where you listening, changing IP doesen't work, becuases some kind of IP war is used(IP range of sorts), so even if the IP cnanges, and you login with a new key, it wont get you anywere.

*cough*Install Tor, set it up to work through BYOND, then bingo. Your IP is re-routed through Hong Kong and problem solved.

Not if you know what your doing ;)

I can think of several ways to use a mix of HTML and Scripting to save a copy of the file with a different name to every folder onto the computer, as long as that folder is accessible from the root C:/ directory

Flame Sage wrote:

Now that's a good way to ban someone!
Spam them with thousands upon thousands of randomly named "ban files"!

I suppose by "good" you mean "effective", because intentionally destroying another person's computer is vandalism and very, very illegal. =)

Because if it came down to that BYOND itself would be legally obligated to release that information.