Ask HN: How do you deal with piracy?

Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with piracy? by tu6 on Sunday August 13, 2017 @12:27PM (#15003522)

Don't worry about users who crack or pirate software. This is not the target demographic you will have much luck with turning into paying customers. Fixate on your actually software. If kids in third world countries are your primary users its time to build something new. That's a signal you don't want to ignore.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with piracy? by ttoinou on Sunday August 13, 2017 @12:46PM (#15003628)

My paying customers are professional in the industry I work on. Most of my pirates might very well be "amateurs" in the sense that they don't make money with theirs activity and I'm fine with it.

I just think it's too bad for me theses people go somewhere else to download my product and talk about it. There must be something I could do

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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with piracy? by detaro on Sunday August 13, 2017 @01:07PM (#15003755)

Some professional software has student or hobby licenses. Finding the right set of limitations and price is an interesting balance though.

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