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Agreed, and i also would never advocate piracy in any form. Problem is, in the area of piracy, if the encryption or locking mechanism is really hard, that just clamors for more attention. If it's a really sought after piece of software, the person byspassing the security measures gets a ton of clout and praise. Therefore giving people more drive to do so. I have to say that I think Adobe's method of business with creative cloud is the best idea so far. Make the purchase price of your product more attainable at a longer stretch profit and more people will be inclined to purchase. Most people would say that they pirate because the cost of admission is too much. Look at Netflix or Spotify for example. People would pirate movies and music all the time before these services existed, because having a large collection costs a lot.But because they offer a great product that is hassle free with no chains attached, more people find it to be easier to just pony up $10/month for the streaming service. Yes, you don't own the movie or music track, but the exchange is that its always available to you anyway as long as you are a paid subscriber. I know there's probably not a study to back it up, but I would love to see some numbers as to how many people are now paying Adobe customers that once pirated the software. I'm willing to bet having that low monthly price vs. The high one-time perpetual license price got a lot of budget conscious users interested and converted to paying customers. I wish other software companies would take a look at this model. Especially plugin devs. ///Greg Balint On Aug 23, 2013 1:52 PM, "Teddy Gage" <teddygage@gmail.com> wrote:
Jeff, just to play the devil's advocate here, and I DO NOT support piracy in any way, shape or form, it is especially criminal at large places that can afford it and choose to steal to help their bottom line, but doesnt the responsibility to protect the software lie with the developer? Hear me out. If you have a $2,000 bike wouldnt you put a lock on it when you go inside? Sure, theres no lock in the world that is 100% theft proof, but there are locks that are extremely difficult to break and will reasonably protect your investment. My tech knowledge of these things are pretty low, but if your software is so good everyone wants to steal it, maybe look into hardware dongles, better encryption, etc? If it is too hard to crack people will just give up and buy it? Right? Maybe? |
