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Double down efforts to survey users and potential users. Keep making the product better. Consider the pirate option as a competitor. Don’t demonize your user ba
by ballenf 4y ago
Double down efforts to survey users and potential users. Keep making the product better. Consider the pirate option as a competitor. Don’t demonize your user base, but don’t be afraid to go after any institution you know is using pirated version.
Build multiple telemetry code paths in your code — if you can just get IP addresses of offenders you’ll have way more info than now.
- nullish_signal 4y agoIt's a matter of course to firewall all Networking of all DLLs in Illicitly Downloaded applications
- hh3k0 4y ago> Don’t demonize your user base […] Build multiple telemetry code paths in your code — if you can just get IP addresses of offenders you’ll have way more info than now. Sorry, but from where I stand that absolutely looks like demonizing the user base.
- vorpalhex 4y agoI think the parent means more "analyze why they are pirating" (is your price for a given too country in a weird spot, is it an unapproved software purchase, etc)
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y agoOkay, but the suggestion amounts to "track all your users, including the legitimate ones who paid you, all the time".
- KomoD 4y agoThe "why" is easy to find out without tracking all your users. > A license costs a few thousand dollars
- speedgoose 4y agoRemember to be GDPR compliant though. You must ask consent if you decide to track personal information such as IP addresses.