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> But above all, make sure not to confuse a "pirated copy" with a "lost sale".

The one time I had software cracked and pirated sales pretty much dried up immediately upon its release.

This is probably true if your audience is primarily people who aren't particularly technically minded, but my product was no doubt most appealing to the same kind of people who know how to pirate software.



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