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。
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)。
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