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There will still be piracy. If anything, more, as those currently benefiting from obscurity of their chosen DRM and software will be lumped in with the high pro
by roc 16y ago
There will still be piracy. If anything, more, as those currently benefiting from obscurity of their chosen DRM and software will be lumped in with the high profile releases with unified DRM. So once the hard work is done, it'll be trivial to automatically crack and cross-post anything new that is posted to the store.
The benefits are all about discovery, performant hosting, confidence, and lower friction of purchase/installation/uninstallation.
- alxp 16y agoA lot of Apple products don't have any activation at all and rely on the honour system. The times I've pirated desktop software was because I was annoyed that I had to tie the installation to a single machine. The Mac app store lets you install on multiple machines, so that will be enough to make me happy to pay for more apps.