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Originally Posted by brendand
If you made it known to the user the app was cracked and that it will function as a "lite" version until it is purchased, do you think the cracker will just not bother to post it then?
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It's really hard to say. My app doesn't wait, on every launch a pirate copy pops a dialog that says it's damaged and may not work properly. That didn't stop it being posted, and fully 1/3 of folks that have run the upgrade are pirates.
This tells me a couple of things -- pirate sites are great publicity so if you can figure a way to convert any of the freeloaders you're riding a bonus. Second, the cracker of my app didn't much care if it worked properly or not. I would guess that given my first observation you shouldn't make a freeloader hate your app or they'll never convert. But I'd definitely make cracked copies into a lite version if you can because you will be cracked and posted so you really should do what you can to try to convert the cracked copies to paid!
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