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Originally Posted by JezC
We ended up realising that we would probably support a community of users between five and ten times larger than we had sold to. Price reductions made a small difference in the ratio. A very few of the "extra" users became buying users, but it wasn't a good lead generation mechanism.
Consider making your product into a legit ShareWare product. Free distribution with nagware or feature limitation pending an unlock. Then the BitTorrent distributors become a friend rather than an enemy.
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Exactly. The huge majority of illegal downloaders would never buy the product anyway, so there is no real damage. Instead, in this way you can only get more sales when some of them realize they really need it.