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Yes I might do that in the future, I have to be the first google result of "MyProduct Crack" ;) But if the official author of the plugin gives it for free it s

Yes I might do that in the future, I have to be the first google result of "MyProduct Crack" ;) But if the official author of the plugin gives it for free it sends a weird message to paying customers, no ?

dasil003 9y ago
Well you wouldn't link it from your main site nav, it would just be for people searching for the crack directly. If people find it that way then you have to assume they're at least on the fence and are likely to pirate anyway.
iamben 9y ago
From an SEO standpoint I don't think it would be too hard to rank for that :-) I guess the whole point was not to give it for free, but to make someone realise that they could get it for free with X hours work and learning. But most people are too lazy - those determined to steal will do it anyway, and those that can be converted to pay you've given yourself a platform to get them to understand why they should.
- ttoinou 9y ago
  Well one "advantage" of having an official crack web page is to give the software cracked without virus.
  - iamben 9y ago
    Well if it's the top link, it's also one more (or even the first) chance to say "please buy this" before they look for a crack elsewhere.
chx 9y ago
Even when I had like three different claims to a free PhpStorm license as a top Drupal contributor to 7 and 8 and also as someone who writes some PHP documentation I was still paying for it because great software deserves to be paid.
- iamben 9y ago
  I hear ya. Someone once told me (I don't sell software/music/whatever so have no idea if this is true) - for every 5 people, 2 will always pay, 1 will always pirate, and the 2 will buy if given good reason (be that price point, sales pitch, ease, guilt, etc.).
  - danieltillett 9y ago
    That is rather generous of human nature. My experience is out of every 100 people 99 will pirate and 1 will always pay.
cm2187 9y ago
In most large corporations, using pirated software is a breach of internal policy and possibly a fireable offense. It is unlikely they would violate the license even if it easy to do. Getting a large corporation to buy software from you is another matter. I tried to push my IT dept to buy licenses for libraries I liked, even with a modest cost, unsuccessfully.
- Aeolun 9y ago
  Probably because IT shouldn't have control over Dev related purchases. Unfortunately it seems very few corporations have noticed this fact.

dasil003 9y ago

Well you wouldn't link it from your main site nav, it would just be for people searching for the crack directly. If people find it that way then you have to assume they're at least on the fence and are likely to pirate anyway.

iamben 9y ago

From an SEO standpoint I don't think it would be too hard to rank for that :-) I guess the whole point was not to give it for free, but to make someone realise that they could get it for free with X hours work and learning. But most people are too lazy - those determined to steal will do it anyway, and those that can be converted to pay you've given yourself a platform to get them to understand why they should.

ttoinou 9y ago
Well one "advantage" of having an official crack web page is to give the software cracked without virus.
- iamben 9y ago
  Well if it's the top link, it's also one more (or even the first) chance to say "please buy this" before they look for a crack elsewhere.

chx 9y ago

Even when I had like three different claims to a free PhpStorm license as a top Drupal contributor to 7 and 8 and also as someone who writes some PHP documentation I was still paying for it because great software deserves to be paid.

iamben 9y ago
I hear ya. Someone once told me (I don't sell software/music/whatever so have no idea if this is true) - for every 5 people, 2 will always pay, 1 will always pirate, and the 2 will buy if given good reason (be that price point, sales pitch, ease, guilt, etc.).
- danieltillett 9y ago
  That is rather generous of human nature. My experience is out of every 100 people 99 will pirate and 1 will always pay.

cm2187 9y ago

In most large corporations, using pirated software is a breach of internal policy and possibly a fireable offense. It is unlikely they would violate the license even if it easy to do. Getting a large corporation to buy software from you is another matter. I tried to push my IT dept to buy licenses for libraries I liked, even with a modest cost, unsuccessfully.

Aeolun 9y ago
Probably because IT shouldn't have control over Dev related purchases. Unfortunately it seems very few corporations have noticed this fact.