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by yason 5516 days ago
You can't reduce piracy per se. You can just make your product more worth buying and as a side-effect piracy may go down a little, i.e. some who used to pirate it will instead buy it. Or then more people are buying and more people are also pirating it: that'd still be an improvement.

Trying to reduce piracy will just give you a void and you still have to fill that void with buying customers. So starting from the latter part in the first place makes more sense.

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Quite so – my view has always been that making something so valuable that people will steal it is a great problem to have.