Author: Christos Gitsis
Date: 16:18:32 09/26/05
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On September 26, 2005 at 18:58:45, Alex Newman wrote: >Hi Joachim, > >That's all fine and well, but I still think you are making a mistake. >People who use pirated software will NEVER buy Fruit. Why would they? They are >used to the free stuff. They already got Shredder, Fritz,... for free. >Fritz 9 which seems to be very strong is already available on all peer-to-peer >networks. >Most of those people will just wait a while until the copy-protection is broken >by some hacker. Since Fruit's exe is very small, I expect that it's going to be >extremly easy for many to brake it. Your only hope is that since Fruit is not >well known outside the small CC comunity, they may never find out about it. > >In the meantime, you are making a big inconvenience for your good customers. In >my oppinion, you will hurt sales rather then gain some. > >Alex Just because some people might break the copy protection, this does not mean that the author should not make it difficult for them. How does a creator feel, when he sees the fruit of his work being stolen, knowing that he did not do his best to prevent this? If I were an program author I would try to protect my product in every way that I could.
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