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- mitsu0
""The giants that produce the software that we need often are hurt by the amount of piracy they face."
hurt, huh?
apparently you never saw this:
http://dudle.linuxroot.org/pix/v…
large companies have their own strategies for dealing with piracy... they are fine. it's the little guys that create a cool app like milkshape and ask for modest registration fees who are hurt by piracy.
and while all that's fine and good, you have one other thing to remember. digital mediums are....
DIGITAL
meaning there's not lock that can't be picked. distribute your software to enough people and you're going to have to deal with piracy issues. reverse engineering is common place and writing the most cutting edge anti-piracy programs isn't going to do anything but give hackers/crackers a bigger challenge (a bigger opportunity to look better in front of his/her peers).
i could go on and on about this, especially since i'm a biased programmer having several apps that i'll be releasing next year, but i think you get the idea.