未来是开源和免费的……

如果你要为公众开发软件，请保持免费……没人会黑…为资金募集捐款…无税无张力

如果有人认为你的产品足够好，值得他们花时间去破解，那么你一定做对了什么。记住，世界上诚实的人比不诚实的人多，无论你做什么，你都不会让不诚实的人买你的产品。所以要专注于让你诚实的客户满意。

这显然是一种高度个人化的反应。我不期望其他人分享它:庆祝吧!有人认为你的软件值得偷!

(a)不可能阻止别人窃取你的软件， (b)试图只激怒你诚实的顾客和 (c)有人偷你的软件意味着你已经解决了最大的问题:隐蔽性。如果没有人知道你的程序，就没有人会买它。至少如果有人不怕麻烦破解了你的软件，人们就会知道你的产品。这里的另一个答案提供了一些有趣的方法来让人们为你的产品付费。

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

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。

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。