Whenever I come across a discussion on this user group about software piracy I go and checkout how my app is doing. I have 2 questions. 1. I came across a few file of my software on downloadcave. The cheek of it, you need to pay to download the software that they have cracked. Does anybody know anything about them? 2. Has anybody has any idea of the number of cracked version being used compare to the genuine users.
Reza www.qu-s.eu On 2 Mar 2010, at 10:42, the_richy_rich wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], Uli Kusterer <witness.of.teacht...@...> wrote: > > > There may be more cracks and serials out there, but they're uninteresting > > if user's can't find them. And a few crackers who want a free copy can be > > chalked up as a marketing expense. In fact, maybe one should go the PS2 > > hacking route: Sony made the PS2 open for Linux geeks so they wouldn't > > bother trying to crack it seriously (the smart guys generally want the > > challenge more than the free games, so if the challenge isn't there, > > there's less hackers interested in trying). I don't know if it worked out > > (supposedly the new one is locked down). So maybe give free serials to > > hackers, so they don't bother trying to crack or keygen? > > ps3? Apparently you can install linux on it, but it wasn't allowed to access > some of the hardware (e.g. GPU). So they hacked the hypervisor. > http://rdist.root.org/2010/01/27/how-the-ps3-hypervisor-was-hacked/ > > I guess the moral is, you're never going to stop it. I guess the only thing > to do is not make it too easy for them but don't worry too much about it. > > I received an email from someone saying that they couldn't get my trial > period to work so they cracked it. I sent them an email back saying 'nice > work! if you'd asked I'd have sent you a free license' and sent them a free > license anyway. I figure I didn't lose anything by doing that and if I was > considering having a policy of responding to users who I know are running > cracked versions but ask for support with a free license. At least that would > make them legitimate and more likely to upgrade in the future (maybe) if not > then I've not lost out as far as I can see. > > That said... I haven't updated my software in a looong time, been busy with > other projects so I'm not doing this for a full time job at the moment (more > stuff in the pipeline though). > > Richy > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ MacSB email guidelines: http://tinyurl.com/2g55d6 Use MacSB-Talk for off topic messages: http://groups.google.com/group/macsb-talk Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/macsb/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/macsb/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
