Re: cracking site - how do we shut it down?

[Jason Mellein]

Or you could make sure that a splash screen comes up the first time it runs
warning people that if they pulled this app off an unauthorized site it may
be buggy due to hacker involvment. 

FUD tactics work pretty well for MS...

At 12:32 PM 6/8/99 -0700, you wrote:
>> Then they must get it from your site.
>> If they get it from somewhere else, it may be
>> a virus-infected copy.
>> 
>> The user's only authentication is the fact that
>> they get it from your authorized site.
>
>> Does this meet your objection?
>
>So some small percentage of users understand that they've somehow
>gotten ahold of a pirated copy of my software and the rest just think
>I write crap!  I'd rather risk somebody else's reputation.
>
>--Eric House
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