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It was purchased by both individuals and companies. One was an Outlook add-in to manage various hidden security settings. I tried my own experiment on two different products. Now I will try to answer some of the constructive questions. I have debated this for years in person, at conferences, and in private forums. Updateįirst I want to say, as I stated in my comment below, I am not going to get into an argument or debate about this-especially one based on semantics. People aren't as honest as most of us would like to think. I do agree that some people will never buy your software, and you have to balance protecting unauthorized use and inconveniencing honest customers.īut don't be fooled into thinking piracy isn't a big problem and not worth investing a reasonable amount of effort to prevent. Other people I know have tried the redirect bogus codes to a web page technique with similar (and sometimes significantly better) results. Also, the product was under $20 USD, so it wasn't an expensive one. This is a product with a fully functional 30 day trial, so they had already fully tested the software.

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Those people would have stolen the software if the code would have worked for them. That almost brought sales back to pre-keygen levels. Guess what? Over 50% of people who went to that page bought the software.

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In one experiment I used the partial key verification to redirect customers who entered a pirated key to a special web page that explained they were stealing. I assume you would call thousands of dollars a month a significant impact on sales? I was using partial key verification, and when I updated the verification to make the bogus codes stop working sales immediately went back to normal. In fact, I had one product that I could always tell when it was keygen'd because sales would immediately dive as much as 70%. I have done a few different experiments myself and also have friends in the industry that have seen significant revenue impacts due to piracy. There is also another popular myth that pirated versions do not impact sales. Stealing is stealing no matter if it is a Porsche 911 turbo, music, software or a pack of gum. I'd wager you would not say, 'Wow, I had some great stuff and feel honored someone went to all the trouble of taking it.' if someone broke into your house and stole your property. I mean, didn't you already know that? Why else would you spend time creating it if you didn't think it was worth anything? I am always shocked when I see developers are happy that someone thought their software was worth stealing.

I have had several products marketed to both individuals and businesses. Ok, I've been selling software online for almost 10 years. And I'd say this page became a very good read for any programmer interested in the topic. Post discussion: As I see how much interest this question generated I'd say even if not purely programming topic the community needed to say what they think.

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Is there anything the software author can do to get the cracked version offline, or I'm just boned and shouldn't create anymore software, but just work on client's projects? What's your advice? Anybody with experience in that?Įdit: programming is what I do- so no question about whether or not continuing, just is that clients pay per project in real money, and I still don't know if indie development would pay at least for the time invested, and now with the cracked download I'm trying to evaluate what to do, and if there's way to react

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Today I found the first web site where people download it cracked, and I was wondering if any of you fellow programmers know how to react to such stuff? So, after 6 months of hard work finally released my application. It is not currently accepting new answers or interactions. This question and its answers are locked because the question is off-topic but has historical significance.