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

Consider piracy as a business expense that comes with the territory of having a product that can be sold to thousands at near zero product cost. We can't have it all our way. Just use basic protection to stop customers passing it around. Anything more is not worth the time and expense. Don't make your paying customers jump through licensing hoops. Often I'll pay for a product, get driven crazy by the licensing scheme and seek out a cracked version. Make trials not by period but by hours used. It's easy to get diverted and not have a chance to evaluate the software. Most people won't consider to ask for an extension. Consider if you've pirated music CDs, movies, software etc. yourself and rest in peace knowing it somewhat evens out. Always have different levels of your product. People don't want to pay big bucks for a product they only use 10% of. Make the product fantastic. Customers will eagerly await the latest version and not want to wait for a crack to appear. The users of poor products think, "I hate this product, it's full of bugs, but I haven't found anything better yet". That's inviting piracy.

其他回答

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

在线验证系统怎么样?我的意思是. .如果你(自动)按需创建序列号,并要求在线验证来激活你的软件,也许你可以减缓坏的活动。我不了解你的软件,这只是一个想法。

用DMCA通知联系谷歌,并将该页面从搜索索引中删除。这将使人们很难找到盗版。

http://www.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=ts.cs&ts=1114905

我所见过的最优雅的解决方案是在所有网页的底部用小字体写明“漏洞、warez、keygens、torrent文件、免费下载等会伤害该软件的发布者”。它游戏PageRank和(希望)导致搜索欺骗你的用户被发送到你的网站。

你无法阻止盗版……想要你的软件(但无意购买)的人永远不会购买它,总是试图找到免费获得它的方法……

相反,专注于生产人们想要购买的高质量产品。不要专注于生产一款(试图)阻止盗版的产品……这样做只会分散你生产高质量产品的注意力,只会激怒你的付费客户(DRM吗?)

想想看……花x个小时在一个很酷的新功能上,或者花同样多的时间来阻止潜在的盗版者入侵你的软件。我相信购买你的软件的人会非常欣赏这些酷炫的新功能,而不是让软件在一天中的任何时候都“更少”被黑客攻击……