I am legit
Just look at the most popular collection of apps (Windows OS) and see what all their restrictions have produced. Placing restrictions simply hurts legitimate customers. If companies were responsive, they would put fewer restrictions rather than more.
"I have legally acquired this application"
Require people to type that before you app installs. Your legit folks will be happy and those that got it illegally will use it anyway.
More so with music. I mean, come on. If someone wanted to send out the best quality files to the internet they simply purchase a single CD and convert it. The online versions are of inferior quality to begin with.
This makes no sense (but then again, neither does DRM). If people can pirate an app (and get a stolen serial) then the logical outcome is for application developers to stop requiring serial numbers. Instead, most non-open-source companies put more restrictions rather than less. What is this point? If people want to use your app without paying you, they will. Full stop.the scale of piracy has made it so that legitimate users have to put up with increasingly burdensome measures to use...
Just look at the most popular collection of apps (Windows OS) and see what all their restrictions have produced. Placing restrictions simply hurts legitimate customers. If companies were responsive, they would put fewer restrictions rather than more.
"I have legally acquired this application"
Require people to type that before you app installs. Your legit folks will be happy and those that got it illegally will use it anyway.
More so with music. I mean, come on. If someone wanted to send out the best quality files to the internet they simply purchase a single CD and convert it. The online versions are of inferior quality to begin with.