![]() ![]() The minority who do pay for their software are subsidising the majority who don't. I suspect that there's now a tragedy of the commons problem - piracy is so rampant that the costs are being priced into software, which just makes it less affordable. It's a really difficult problem and I'm not sure what the solution is. Even the cut-down licenses seem absurdly expensive if your price anchor for software is $0.99. I fully understand why a 19-year-old EDM producer might choose to torrent Ableton Suite and Komplete Ultimate, rather than trying to find $2,000 for full licenses or paying $300 for a tiny fraction of the full functionality. Cut-down licenses are usually available, but they're often too barebones to be useful paying for software that's worse than the pirated version is difficult to stomach if you're on a tight budget. A serious composer might have $30,000 worth of software licenses. In my field (music technology), most software ranges from hundreds to thousands of dollars. A lot of other software is totally unaffordable for keen amateurs or people in developing countries. Someone pirating a $40 table plan program is almost certainly pathological, granted. Showing a cheaper (but inferior, possibly) software/solution that does the same thing as the thing you're trying to sell.Īfter trying 2 or 3 and the customer concluded to themselves "fuck it, it sucks even more for me to try saving a couple of bucks than to buy this outright," then there is a chance they might actually be happy to buy it. ![]() Actually offering them a way to email you to ask for a free license and explain why they can't afford or pay for it.Ģ. Providing a reduced/lite mode/ad-enabled license (for example, powered by. ![]() Actually giving them a discount: Providing a discounted license. There might be some actual, helpful solutions to the customer given you are facing a customer trying to save a buck:ġ. What probably will happen is that they click back and move to the next result. Best case, they grudgingly pay for your shit. It gives the impression 'ahaha I knew you will do this, caught ya' - you're trying too hard like a car salesman. Having that page sounds like a smug idea to 'outsmart' the customers (which I think is dangerous). I think scaring customers who are looking for cracks with "you're sooooo gonna get malware, stop doing that" sounds a bit cheap and might turn some away. ![]() The honeypot page doesn't provide anything useful to the question. When searching for the crack, it means someone thinks that the software isn't worth the value being asked (or they might not have any way to pay). ![]()
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