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Additionally, as another commenter mentioned, piracy is not theft. Someone who pirates your software will almost certainly never pay for it; it's not a lost rev
by lopkeny12ko 4y ago
Additionally, as another commenter mentioned, piracy is not theft. Someone who pirates your software will almost certainly never pay for it; it's not a lost revenue opportunity. Consider it free promotion and popularization of your product: any publicity is good publicity.
- polartx 4y agoAbsolutely correct. If I can piggyback to elaborate: Piracy is *not* theft, it’s ‘copyright infringement’—they had to define a legal term because the courts determined that copying content does not deprive the IP owner of whatever-it-was-that-was-copied. And assuming OPs product has some productivity or business uses, many pirate users are simply b2b sales in embryo. As a college student I may have pirated software to help get an assignment done, (AV editing, or something), which later in my career I advocated to my business unit leader that we should buy, and I could demonstrate it too!