7 Ways to Prevent Piracy

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Copy protection system

You should always use a copy protection system.

Tip: You must make sure you have a right license to use it.

Separate demo and full version

You must create separate versions of your product.

Tip: It’s a very practical and inexpensive way to copy protect your software products.

Online features or online registration

You could have features that require Internet, or you can frequently use different online protection codes for your product.

Give discounts or lower the product price

You might sometimes low your software price or technical support rates to motivate people get legal licenses.

Give your product for free

You may use this way to let people know of your products, but you must regularly tell them that is not ALL free.

Don’t give away your software source code

You must never take the risk of share ALL your source code; in case something happens THIS IS YOUR WORK!

Tip: Often it´s nice to share your products, but not Always!

If your product ends up to some warez site, take legal actions

You musn´t allow your product end up hacked into some illegal site. Contact the internet service provider as soon as possible.

Warez refers primarily to copyrighted works distributed without fees or royalties, and may be traded, in general violation of copyright law.