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Originally Posted by HarryT
No, it's the greed of the people who want something for nothing. The fact that something is easy to steal does not morally excuse the act of stealing it. And unfortunately the law as it stands gives virtually no help to people like me who are having their work stolen: it's far too expensive for an ordinary individual to take someone to court even if you can get proof that they've taken your work. We can sometimes do things - eg on one occasion I was able to get a student expelled from a Japanese university who was pirating my software and selling it on eBay - but such successes against the criminals are few and far between.
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It's your own damn fault that people are stealing your software, HarryT.
You decided to not put sufficient protections in the software to prevent it from being capable of being copied and used without authorisation. Do you have a sufficiently powerful key system? Does the program call home to confirm it's licensing status? Do you need a dongle to operate the program? Does the program require a special DVD to operate? Are you issuing a new key every month?
You made the decision to forgo increased protection in the program in order to increase the potential for sales. Presumably this was a calculated and rational decision, in which you carefully weighed the additional cost and difficulty of sales against the lower cost and ease of sales. So basically, you should have priced the expected piracy into the price of your product. Every other business does.
Now, ordinarily I wouldn't use 'damn' in a post, but you've been using it a lot lately (in this thread as a matter of fact), so I figured it was ok.