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Bottom line is GREED.
The writers are greedy. They write something and they want to get paid for it. So they estimate how many people will pay for vs. how many people will pirate it. Problem is they are always wrong.
The Pirates (me) are greedy. We don't want to pay $25 or more for a program that we can get free. Yes there is some work/risk involved in being a Pirate, but the benefit far out weigh the risks.
What can programmers do? Two things.
1: Include a 30 day trial with ALL programs.
2: Make your programs $10.00 each.
Piracy of your product will come to almost a complete stop and you'll make a lot more money.
If it's free for 30 days, we're all going to download it FROM YOU not from our download/warez site to see if we like it or not.
After the trial is over if we really like the program we'll buy it. I'd rather pay ten bucks for a program then hack/crack a program and I'm sure most people would rather pay then Pirate.
A year or so back, there was a download site that charged five bucks for any program you downloaded and they were all guaranteed to work. Very active site (not working any more) and he made a LOT of money. If the writers/programmers do the same thing, they'll make more money.
I wanted a fax program a year or two back and it was $45.00! I found it free and downloaded it and it worked. It wasn't that great, wasn't worth almost 50 bucks. I would have paid ten maybe twelve, never fifty.
Yar.
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