所以,经过6个月的努力,我终于发布了我的申请。今天我发现第一个下载它的网站被破解了,我想知道你们程序员同事中是否有人知道如何应对这种东西?

有什么软件作者可以做什么来让破解的版本离线,或者我只是骨头,不应该再创建任何软件,而只是在客户的项目上工作?你有什么建议?有人有这方面的经验吗?

编辑:编程是我所做的——所以是否继续没有问题,只是客户为每个项目支付真金,我仍然不知道独立开发是否至少会为所投入的时间付出代价,现在有了破解的下载,我试图评估该做什么,以及是否有办法做出反应

帖子讨论:当我看到这个问题引起了多大的兴趣时,我想说,即使不是纯粹的编程主题,社区也需要说出他们的想法。我想说,对于任何对这个主题感兴趣的程序员来说,这个页面都是一个非常好的读物。


当前回答

我相信广泛的软件盗版通常意味着你对你产品的基本版本要价过高,你最终可以通过大幅降低入门版本的价格来赚更多的钱——市场甚至可能希望这个版本免费。关键是要正确划分市场,弄清楚谁能够支付什么。

As an example of this, look at Visual Studio vs Delphi/C++ Builder. The two used to be very competitive, with old Broderbund/Borland perhaps even ahead of Visual Studio at one time. And then Microsoft figured out they needed to give away a base version of Visual Studio that honestly has enough features for most of us to get by if we really needed to. The result? Delphi/C++ Builder completely lost the low end of the market where the students are that feed into the more-lucrative professional market. Now they're fading fast into irrelevance.

其他回答

我被一些为软件盗版辩护的评论和回答激怒了,以至于我不得不写了一篇长篇大论:软件盗版是偷窃吗?.

I agree with GSto... a lot of people aren't going to use a cracked version, I think really its a small minority of people who are willing to do such a thing since they are often wrought with viruses and it just isn't the type of thing that most people would go through the hassle of bothering with, the only way that it would be in jeapordy is if your app is some sort of hacking / black hat marketing app which is, itself, shady and therefore something sought after by the demographic who is most likely to use cracked software..

不要浪费你的时间试图追求有破解版本的“网站”,因为他们几乎肯定是通过torrent网站进行交易,任何人都应该知道,这些是不可能停止的。如果好莱坞电影公司不能阻止他们的电影在DVD发行后的第二天(或者通常是之前)被盗版,你将如何与在线交易你的软件的人对抗?

保护你的软件100%的唯一方法是使用基于云的方法,在你的服务器上托管软件的一部分,你仍然可以把很多代码放在客户端,但只是让它通过你的某些事情运行,我不知道你的应用程序是什么,所以很难说这是否可行。

还要考虑价格。我不知道你们的软件是什么,但每种产品都有多个市场。例如,Photoshop有一个普通版本,它有点超出了任何人想要修饰他们的假期照片的成本范围。出于这个原因,他们制造元素,虽然没有那么多,但确实服务于市场。如果你的软件价格昂贵,而且个人用途有限,可以尝试发布一个家庭版。试用版,广告支持版。

你不要试图检测被黑的版本。这种类型的DRM只会惹恼真正的用户

I don't know for sure what I would do in your position, but at least one developer who found his cracked software available as a torrent emailed the host to complain -- not about the crack, but about the quality of the crack. It seems that the cracker didn't do a very good job and made the software less desirable. The developer was apparently horrified that his product, with his name, was going out to people and would ruin his product's good reputation, and demanded that if someone was going to crack it, that they needed to do a better job!

这个故事出现在Slashdot上:

开发者要求海盗湾不移除Torrent

并不是说这是你必须要走的路,但许多开发人员免费或低成本发布他们的软件,并从支持中获得收入。这听起来可能没有效果,但降低产品成本会极大地增加你的用户基础,所以即使只有1%的用户需要支持,你也会获得不错的收入。