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Old 08-13-2008, 01:09 PM
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Default Re: Client's commercial product released as free download on bit torrent

Thanks for all the details, Wige. That gives us a much better idea of what we're looking at here. Although I think maybe you're right in that we're pretty much S.O.L. on this one. It's a very low priced product so putting some kind of advanced copy protection was not really viable. Even then, as you said, there are ways around it. I'm reading lately about how big video game developers are having a real go of it stemming the tide of online piracy. I was kind of under the impression that a low priced product put out by a small business would fly under the radar of the whole bit torrent thing. We've been carefully monitoring some other products over the past year and none of them have shown up in bit torrents or file sharing sites so far (that we know of). So the lesson I'm learning here is that it's really just the luck of the draw and no product is really safe.
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