View Poll Results: If someone cracked your software, would you...

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  • Be very ........ed off?

    4 15.38%
  • Hunt them down and kill them like animals?

    6 23.08%
  • Withdraw the shareware and change its security?

    2 7.69%
  • Withdraw the shareware for good and just sell it boxed?

    0 0%
  • Contact the police?

    1 3.85%
  • Ask them to remove the crack from their site?

    1 3.85%
  • Put a bounty on their heads?

    2 7.69%
  • I've never made any shareware - But i appove of it!

    1 3.85%
  • I've never made any shareware - and software should be free!

    6 23.08%
  • Other..please reply and say

    3 11.54%

Thread: If someone cracked your software...

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    If someone cracked your software...

    Personally I'd be a bit ........ed off, but I've never made any shareware before.

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    Released the software free anyway?
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    . . . I'd crack e'm back
    if a contradiction was contradicted would that contradition contradict the origional crontradiction?

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    rewrite the software totally, rendering the previous versions obsolete, then making the new version requiring a million little keys while it's installing, and if you get one digit wrong, it completely kills off your harddrive.

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    Hmmm..... Couple things pop out of the ol' mind. Spam, nuke, Find out their address with NeoTrace and send them photos of where they live, crack into their site and do some damage. And that's only five seconds worth of thinking, imagine what and hour, day, or week could produce...So, yes i would be ........ed to!
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    >and if you get one digit wrong, it completely kills off your harddrive
    Yes, security measures that react violently to cracking Either we'd increase the revenue for computer repair and sales or increase the revenue for software sales. A win win situation

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    which would help the economy
    Acos is good

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    Who says someone will be able to crack my software?
    My Website

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    call the police ...and if theyd do nothing, then hunt them down!

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    ahh.. if they crack it, they crack it... who gives a rat's behind.. if they want to spend that much effort cracking my software, then they can have it..

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    If they crack my software, they'll have a lot worse things to deal with than me... They'll have to use whatever program they cracked!

    Oh yeah, then I'd hunt them down, and beat them up, and hurt them... and stuff. Nah, maybe just make them use my software - that'd be bad enough.

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