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From: ahodgson@athena.mit.edu (Antony Hodgson)
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Subject: Re: Shareware "Piracy" (was Re: Cracking games)
Keywords: shareware
Message-ID: <1991Mar21.153234.21760@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 21 Mar 91 15:32:34 GMT
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In article <27530@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> dor@dolphin.cis.ufl.edu (A Knight in White Satin) writes:
>In article <7808@uceng.UC.EDU> dmocsny@minerva.che.uc.edu (Daniel Mocsny) writes:
>
>[lots of lead-in to the following statement deleted.]
>->Every shareware registration form should include a field for 
>->identifying the registered user who influenced the new registrant's
>->decision. Then the shareware author should send a kickback to
>->that person. This would motivate the unpaid-consultant-pirates to
>->register, as well as give *them* an incentive to pressure their
>->clients to register.
>
>I seem to recall that PC-Write by Quicksoft has such an agreement to it.
>If people register off of your
>registered copy, you get some sort of kickback--I think it was $5.
>
Actually, it was $25.  Get three other people to register and you've
essentially got a legit copy for free.  I think it's a great idea, and
judging by the success of PC_Write, it works!

Tony Hodgson
ahodgson@hstbme.mit.edu