In case anyone is thinking of doing the same, ever since I added the "please don't pirate" error message to my software (last week), I've had four confirmed pirates step up and buy a copy. And that's out of twenty copies which have phoned home thus far.
Tyler On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 6:41 AM, Greg Reichow <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
