Title: Hi, I&#x27;m selling a software and cracks are given in forums on the internet. The thing is, theses users don&#x27;t come to my product page for getting updates for example, so I think it&#x27;s a loss for me because I can&#x27;t reach them and talk to them. I feel like I won&#x27;t ever be able to convert them to paying customers.<p>I&#x27;m wondering what I can do about it. Could I add a &quot;I cracked your software, is it wrong ?&quot; in the FAQ and try to not show it if I detect the software is not cracked ?<p>What if I distribute the pirated version myself ? Wouldn&#x27;t that look weird to paying customers ?<p>Should I add an infinitely renewable 15 days trial instead of a limited features trial ?<p>Do you know of projects that went open source &#x2F; free software and how they handled it ?<p>Thanks !<p>PS : I didn&#x27;t say Piracy was bad in itself. I spent my childhood pirating stuff and now my livelihood is selling software.. I have faith that some of my pirate users can become my clients one day or another and I would like to take care of this issue myself rather than letting people going to underground forums and download virus.
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