What About Software Piracy?


Fundamentally, I want to eliminate piracy by making the batterychip the most persuasive economic choice for the majority of users. As with all other schemes, when we try to build a better technical mousetrap, we just incite smarter mice. Better to figure out a way to make them buy the cheese of their own accord. Perhaps the batterychip's memory will be programmed at the factory, using a device that is relatively expensive and not generally available to the public. Then it would be cheaper just to buy a new batterychip instead of copying the software from an existing one and trying to "reburn" it onto an older batterychip. But, fundamentally, I am not trying to address software piracy with this proposal. It may have some fortuitous side effects, but that is incidental.




The Software Development Edge(c) Essays on Managing Successful Projects
The Software Development Edge(c) Essays on Managing Successful Projects
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