First off, then if someone bothered to make a crack then your App is
heading on good way. People usually don't bother to make cracks unless
the App is good.
I think the only thing to do is to add checks here and there to make it
more troublesome to crack. (let it check when it has been running for
x-period of time and such)
Björn
Trausti Thor Johannsson wrote:
Hello,
I make a genealogy application, and I was just googling around for it,
and seeing if any blogs where actually talking about it. I have spent
a lot of time on this app, and of course money and such (just like all
of you). I just found a crack for my app that removes the 30 day limit.
Now I know that one can do a lot to copy protect the app, I choose one
way to do it, so my copy protection scheme is not to difficult to
crack, I want to spend my time on making sure that my app is the
fastest genealogy app out there, not spend my time on making the copy
protection more complicated than my app it self.
So you people with the experience, do people go around searching for
hacks and cracks and then use the app, or is this a sub set of people
that would never buy the app anyway.
This hack is windows only as far as I can find out. And that is what
troubles me, after I released my application in many languages, I
revived the windows build of it. And I am getting almost 50%
downloads of Windows vs Mac OS X 50%, and these are thousands of
downloads. It is quite close call. But I have not a single sale for
windows, not one sale. All the sales I am getting are Mac OS X (as
far as I know).
What do you people do when you find your app on a sleazy site ? Do
you re-write the copy protection, only to have it cracked again a few
days later ? Or isn't this just a very clear sign of stop developing
the Windows application ?
And if you rewrite the copy protection, doesn't that mean sending out
new serial numbers to all your users, and having extra support for
weeks ? or should I just continue what I do and just look at this
like a free advertisement ?
Best regards,
Trausti Thor
Studlar Software
http://www.studlar.net
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