Re: Basic instinct
Re: Basic instinct
- Subject: Re: Basic instinct
- From: Andrew Satori <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 10:12:58 -0400
The legal liability that you would face in this instance far and away
exceeds the return.
Let me suggest that you take your modification, and instead of
deleting, Ok simply redirects the user to legitimate purchase page.
Anything you do destructive like that can and most likely will
backfire. First there is the legal liability you place upon yourself
with that action, second is the image problem that you would create.
The mere fact that your program *could* do that would be enough to
start a rumor that could ultimately kill your product and business.
That said, software gets cracked, generally speaking getting cracked
is a good thing, it means that there is a demand. Once you get
cracked, you have a couple of options.
(a) modify your code constantly to prevent the cracks.
(b) accept that the cracks are there and most of the cracked copies
would never by buyers anyways.
(c) do something stupid and find yourself on the wrong side of a
lawsuit.
(d) smile, laugh, and accept the free advertising and promotion
(e) grab a beer, order a pizza and write some more wonderful Cocoa
code for your next project and make more money.
I'll go for (e) and forego the sleepless nights, ulcers and
additional, unneccesary stress of options (a) or (c).
Andy
On Aug 4, 2005, at 9:50 AM, Lorenzo wrote:
Hi,
I have just discovered that my application has been cracked. I want to
modify my code. If my app detectes that it has been cracked because
some
variables are turned on but some other are still off (impossible when
properly registered), I show a dialog to the user saying that this
program
has been cracked and if he continues the program will delete all
the files
from the disk. The dialog has 2 buttons: Quit (predefined) and
Continue. If
the user presses Quit, the application quits, but if he presses the
button
Continue, my application really deletes all the files from the disk?
Can I do that?
Is this legal?
Who should I ask to?
Am I too bad?
Best Regards
--
Lorenzo
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