Author: Neil Schemenauer
Date: 19:57:43 09/27/05
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On September 26, 2005 at 16:33:53, Joachim Rang wrote: >However with Fruit being the strongest engine we >expected some piracy-attraction. With an engine being only a few hundred KBs we >feared that a distribution by simply emailing the engine with a valid serial is >very easy and might hurt sales. Don't you think that it's likely that your copy protection will be cracked? In that case, pirates can still email the engine to each other. What does your copy protection do except inconvenience legitimate customers? Even if you manage to do what no one has ever managed to do and come up with an uncrackable copy protection scheme, will it cause any net gain in sales? I believe that people who intend to pirate the software would be unlikely to pay for it if pirating was impossible. After all, they can easily get a copy of Hiarcs, Fritz or Shredder with the copy protection broken. Is Fruit really going to be so much better that they will want to pay? >I hope you understand. I understand the desire to make a fair return on your effort. I don't understand the logic that leads you to believe that your copy protection will lead to more paying customers. Best regards, Neil
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