How to protect your scripts from getting transfered

Little trick I learned (or maybe someone told me and I just didn't understand at first)

state_entry() {
if (llGetCreator()!="<your hard coded key"
llDie();
}


on_rez(integer param) {
if (llGetCreator()!="<your hard coded key"
llDie();
}


This keeps people from dragging your script onto other objects.

If you don't do this, then they can copy your scripts around to as many items as they wish.

Yep, wouldn't want the scripts to be used. (Yes, that was sarcasm).

Eradicating the object itself seems to be alittle bit extreme - you can never know what else was inside the contents of the object you just killed.

I'd rather use permissions if I need a script to be non-transferable.

And this is a bad thing? It's called fair use. If you buy a database from Oracle, they have no legal right to say what you can or cannot do with it.
You could use it to run a bank, but you could also use it to run the accounting system of an international child abduction mafia.
I dont care if people wipe their ass on my scripts. Heck, I wholeheartedly encourage the use of my scripts in a different object. That way, I do not have to provide the object.

Unless, of course, you set it to no-copy. Sometimes the simple answer works. ;)

Killing the object is crazy... you could have the script delete itself. But if I moved a script into an object that had other things in it that I had paid for, and then your script deletes all of them, I'd expect you to replace my lost items.

That is, unless you make it abundantly clear at the time of purchase that your script is an "object killer" when moved. Otherwise, it strikes me as a very nasty trick to pull on someone who is not violating any of the permissions when they move your script.

That is a really nasty, underhanded thing to do. You have no right to deliberately destroy someone's object. What if they spent hours creating this thing only to have you wipe it out?

That would be like Adobe detecting whether Paintshop is pirated and destroying your computer as punishment.

just send the script to a disabled state. I for one don't know why you'd care if they try and move your script to something else to use. I mean hey, they bought it, they can do whatever the heck they want with it short of reselling it without permission. This method will allow it to work should they move it back into the original object and won't delete a darn thing, the script itself or the object.

default
{
state_entry()
{
if (llGetCreator() != <hardcoded key> {
state disabled;
}
}

on_rez(integer sparam)
{
if (llGetCreator() != <hardcoded key> {
state disabled;
}
}
}

state disabled
{
on_rez(integer sparam)
{
llResetScript();
}
}

just to make that code readable... (use [ code ] or [ php ] tags) and give a warning about it being disabled.

default
{
    state_entry()
    {
        if (llGetCreator() != <hardcoded key> )
            state disabled;
    }

    on_rez(integer sparam)
    {
        if (llGetCreator() != <hardcoded key> )
            state disabled;
    }
}

state disabled
{
    state_entry()
    {
        llSay(0,"Please return this script to it's original object to re-enable it");
    }
    on_rez(integer sparam)
    {
        llResetScript();
    }
}

yea that could fit under harrassment

yea that could fit under harrassment

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been there, done that