One ISV’s view on life and software copy protection

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By Jon Gillespie-Brown | March 2, 2008

Kevin Hoctor has something to say on the world of software copy protection and it’s not what you think!

OK so he is fed up with those who wish to rip him off and have cracked his software:

I guess MoneyWell has hit the big time: it was [k’ed]. That means that some sad individual spent his or her time breaking the copy protection and posting it for the 10 percent to use without paying.

However, what’s even more interesting is his attitude to those that live the life as a software cracker sucking the blood out of even the smallest ISV.

His point is that crackers don’t seem to care who they hurt, they are the leeches of our software industry but in the end they are really just hurting themselves by not ‘contributing’ to society simply living off other people’s hard work. Here, here Kevin…

So to end this on a positive note, there are rewards to living a life of abundance—a life where there is always enough to go around and someone else doesn’t have to lose for you to win. If you believe that by giving you will be rewarded tenfold, then it is true. We do more with our attitudes and actions to shape our own futures than the cynics of the world would like us to believe.

As someone who has lost over 50% of his software revenues in the past to idiots who exploit the rest of us I have to say that his attitude is unusual - people tend to either just ignore the piracy or get really mad about it.

I did both, paid a high price in $$s and then decided to do something about it by starting Nalpeiron many years ago.

Take a look at his blog it’s most interesting:

http://kevinhoctor.blogspot.com/2008/02/taking-care-of-90-percent.html