Re: (OT)Carrots Vs. Sticks in Copy Protection
Re: (OT)Carrots Vs. Sticks in Copy Protection
- Subject: Re: (OT)Carrots Vs. Sticks in Copy Protection
- From: shubo <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 07:09:59 -0700
You must be talking about ***** ****** V5 that came out not too long ago
without OSX support. I wonder how many copies they sold.
Yong
on 7/31/02 12:52 AM, Matt Judy at email@hidden wrote:
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Or, you can implement a complete pain-in-the-ass for a registration
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system, and have the most abysmal customer support... and still manage
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to make your app the de facto standard for page layout and publishing
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on the Mac. :D
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--Matt Judy
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On Sunday, July 28, 2002, at 10:36 PM, Steven W. Schuldt wrote:
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> All,
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> Interesting thread all of this Spy Vs. Spy hackery, but I thought the
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> best strategy I'd heard recently was the one taken by Propellerheads,
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> makers of some of the world's most desirable cracking targets. They
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> use their e-registration process as a ticket to the energy of the
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> larger community using the software. Reg gets you lots of ongoing
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> access to extras, upgrades, support, chat boards and on and on. There
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> are Reason 2.0 cracks floating around, but what cheap chump would
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> really want one?
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> Rather than playing ever more labyrinthine games with license
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> strings, why not devise really strong ongoing support strategies that
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> add genuine value after the sale for legitimate customers? You might
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> even grow a little loyalty and enthusiasm out of this as frankly, if
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> you're doing anything worthwhile, your competition is going to be much
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> more dangerous to you in the long run than any bunch of low-integrity
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> warez grubbers.
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> Not right for every piece of software, certainly, but something to
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> think about.
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> - Steven
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