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

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。

其他回答

但我很确定这里的人说“这是会发生的,不要担心”是错误的。

一方面,是的,绝对的,一般来说你对此几乎无能为力。这是会发生的,只要你的软件还在卖,你就高兴吧。

OTOH, my understanding of Intellectual Property law in the US (presuming thats where your work was created and published- but the internet makes that one a little dogy) any time you are aware of infringment on your intellectual property you must defend your intellectual propery rights. That defense can take any of several forms, but (at its most basic) you either have to give the pirates "permission" to use your work (thus making their work authorized) or you have to persue action against them (CND, lawsuit, whatever).

在所有情况下:咨询律师。在我看来,这里的主要问题是,如果你想继续发布软件(并且你足够优秀,以至于人们想要窃取它),你至少要确保你维护自己的知识产权,这样你所做的任何更新都可以出售,而不是那些小偷认为你所做的更新侵犯了他们的知识产权(比如,你做了一个官方修改,做了一个他们破解的mod所做的事情)。

你什么也做不了。一旦软件出现,它就会出现在那里。当然,你可以向相关网站发送各种法律威胁和下架通知。然后那些获得软件的人会把它发布到其他网站上。

如果软件还没有免费提供,你可以把它塞满DRM和版权保护等等....就会破裂。微软肯定花了数十亿美元试图阻止人们盗版Windows。我仍然认识一些人,他们运行盗版的Windows 7没有任何问题。

You can't prevent people from pirating your software. What you can do is make people feel your software is worth paying for. Some developers have noticed some effect simply from posting a polite and personal message on torrent sites. On the torrent for your software, post a comment saying you're the developer of this software, and while you're glad to see that people like it, the money from software sales goes directly to you and your dog and no one else, and you can't afford to keep making software if you don't get paid. So please consider buying a license.

一些公司仅仅通过善待顾客来打击盗版。让它成为人们想要使用的东西。以人们愿意支付的价格出售。为付费客户提供额外服务。为持有有效许可证的人员提供良好的支持。

Some people are going to pirate your software. There's nothing you can do to prevent it. And it only takes one copy to appear on one warez site, before it spreads and becomes impossible to take down. On the other hand, those people who pirated it most likely weren't prepared to pay for it anyway. If they hadn't been able to pirate it, they simply wouldn't have used it. So in that sense, you haven't lost anything. Remember who your paying customers are. They are the ones you have to satisfy in order to run a successful business. The ones who don't pay aren't your customers, so they're a lot less important.

你可能也会发现这篇博客文章很有趣。

最后,因为有些人很难接受世界不是非黑即白的这一事实,并且喜欢认为那些不把软件盗版等同于邪恶僵尸希特勒的人本身就是秘密的海盗,让我明确一点:

我不宽恕盗版行为。我并不是说你应该喜欢软件盗版者或者像对待自己的孩子一样对待他们。我只是说这是生活中不可避免的事实,太多的公司在“防止盗版”上花了大量的钱,但这并不能阻止盗版使用他们的软件,反而让付费用户使用软件变得不方便。

好消息是,如果有人费心破解了你的软件,这意味着它足够流行/有用,人们真的想要使用它……所以你一定在卖一些!

其次,有一种观点认为,使用破解版本实际上可能会提高你的产品的认知度,并导致更多的销售长期…试着把它想象成一场免费的营销活动……:-)

我今天看到了一个有趣的回答:

我认为,考虑赞助商来开发你的项目将显著地保护你的权利(特别是财务上的权利)。