Pierre- Congratulations; it must be a very nice update! Think of it as free advertising..
One approach that has worked well for me with iPhone applications is to build in some simple crack detection methods into the app. When it detects that the app is cracked, it does not flag the user right away or attempt to stop them. This way, the crackers feel like they succeeded and post the app all over the cracked software websites. Yet, after a couple uses of the application, when they get to one of the key features of the app, it will politely inform them that they are running a cracked version and give them the option to launch the iPhone App Store to purchase the app. I figure this way I get the free advertising from the cracked sites. Users that find it useful may then decide that it is worth the money to purchase. (For those who are not honest, they would not have paid anyhow.) It is not really an attempt to stop the cracking, more of a way of communicating with the people that downloaded the app to give them a very easy path to purchase the application after using it for a while. Greg > Hi! > > I have just released HoudahSpot 2.6. The press release is coming out on > Monday. Out of curiosity, I ran a Google search for "HoudahSpot 2.6" to see > how far the news had already spread. > > The bad news: most first and second page results are links to cracked copies. > http://www.google.com/search?q=houdahspot+2.6 > > I can't tell if the cracked copy actually works. RapidShare won't let me > download without a Premium membership. > > Yet I am quite shocked by how fast and how far this has spread. This happened > within hours of the release. > > I have sent an email to RapidShare asking them to take down the file. But > they don't seem to be in a rush to react. Anyway I don't see this do much > good. The cracker will always be faster at uploading the file than I will be > at getting those sites take it down. > > Pierre > > - - - > Houdah Software s. à r. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
