Comments on: Software piracy

By: Andy Brice

Andy Brice — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:39:52 +0000

>Would you mind if I substantially copied your honeypot page?

Feel free. No need to credit me (it wasn’t my idea in the first place) but please change the wording a bit.

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:20:46 +0000

Would you mind if I substantially copied your honeypot page? I don’t think I can word the sentiments any better than you’ve done.

I’d be happy to acknowledge you as the original author.

(Interesting blog btw, I’ve added you to my feed list.)

By: maria

maria — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:45:49 +0000

Nice blog, cool ideas. The honey-pot approach is good.

maria

By: Having a crack at the crackers « Successful Software

Having a crack at the crackers « Successful Software — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:03:31 +0000

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By: Derek Pollard

Derek Pollard — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 08:40:29 +0000

Superb use of a sitemap. I like what you have done, I noticed that you also use if to get landing pages indexed.

Thanks.

By: Andy Brice

Andy Brice — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 14:10:52 +0000

Derek,

I use the publically accessible sitemap. Customers hardly ever look a it.

By: Derek Pollard

Derek Pollard — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 09:38:53 +0000

Andy, thanks for the article.

At the risk of asking a silly question, how do you get Google to index a crack honey-pot page that is not linked elsewhere on the site? Would that be using the Webmaster sitemap?

By: Fransiscus Herry

Fransiscus Herry — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 06:27:26 +0000

Hi Andy!

Thank you for your sharing about this topic. I am grateful :)…..i’ll bookmark your blog and your software website.

By: Andy Brice

Andy Brice — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:53:33 +0000

>bcos their friends have it for free.so why shud he pay

Because one person infringing copyright doesn’t make it ok for the second person.

I would love a full copy of Photoshop. But I can’t justify the price so I make do with a legit copy of Photoshop Elements.

By setting their price so high Adobe must realise that only business users are going to buy it and non-business users will use pirate copies. Maybe they are ok with that.

By: nitinrohidas

nitinrohidas — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 11:16:39 +0000

Grt article. I can understand the pain.But out there in the world..there are ppl who just cant afford to buy softwares which are sold in dollars.

They find the easy way..to find a crack.Photoshop a common utility for a desktop WHICH is not free…so ppl try to crack it..bcos their friends have it for free.so why shud he pay…many more reasons……..

A collective effort to stop piracy can only solve this problem..hope it never happens….