Jonathan Martin said:
>I didn't
say anything about hackers. I said pirates.
I meant the same people you meant. I
just used a different word. I was a bit drunk on jet lag after a 24 hour
flight when I typed that response. ;)
>And if
you don't think piracy is such a big deal how about posting your next book in
.pdf
>format
on your website for everyone to "purchase" via a paypal link?
>Now if
you put that .pdf
>behind a
simple login screen and only provide logins to people who have paid,
>that
might go a little better for you, wouldn't it? Is it impenetrable?
>No.
Can people find ways around it? Sure. Is it better than
nothing? Hell yeah.
First, my book IS available via PDF and it
HAS already been hacked and available out there for free. In fact, I downloaded
an illegal copy of my own book before I had the real book in my hand. So
please don’t suggest that I’m insensitive to this issue.
You’ll also find in my blog entry entitled “Friends/Family computer
recommendations,” I tell them to make sure they pay for their own
software. I’m all about doing the right thing: http://www.backupcentral.com/content/view/153/47/
You said that they couldn’t put the
software up there because pirates would download it and steal it. A few
points on this.
- Pirates
already have it. You can get every version of NBU and an unlimited
license on warez sites.
- Once
they come out with the new username/password system, usernames and
passwords you can use will show up on warez sites.
- They
don’t have the ORIGINAL software available via anonymous download;
they only have patches that are worthless without the original software.
My only point is that I don’t think
you can use a pirate argument to justify this move.
>"Real
people" do their jobs by downloading a single copy of the software they
need and keeping a local repository.
If it was a single file, that would be
great. A typical NBU client installation has dozens of files that have to
be downloaded every time NBU releases a new version.
>I
personally went to their website, registered some valid serial numbers,
downloaded my software and haven't been back since.
What about updates?
