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by Vitaly 5496 days ago
if you make pirating harder you will undeniably get some of the would be pirates buying instead. and of course you can measure it easily on you sales.

but.

they say the conversion is 1000 pirates vs. one sale. Which only convinces me that im right. think about it. 999 people less will be using the program. yes, you will sell one more copy, but how many future sales you loos because those 999 people are not going around talking about your program, playing it in public, recommending it to friends...

Their sales rose short term but I think the've lost long term for sure.