In addition to what Aeluwas said and linked to - the concept of DRM is just as controversial, based on the continuous demonstration that DRM is extremely ineffective against piracy. It potentially (negatively) affects your paying customer more than the pirates, and it affects content creators negatively because it diverts resources that could have gone into improving the product.
A huge advantage is how fast this sim is moving. A pirate product will be out of date very quickly, and it becomes a pain to keep on waiting for updates to be pirated as well. So any pirates that are willing to pay will eventually pay for it if they see enough value.
Fact is you can never stop pirates. Even if you sentence them to death, smuggling and piracy continue to exist (see some counries in real life). It's difficult and expensive to try to prevent reverse engineering. You can make cracker's lives more difficult, but you cannot stop them. Companies like PMDG will always face profit loss due to piracy. Some crackers these days are people with deep knowledge of how to undo protection mechanisms. The higher a program is ranked on a "most wanted" list, the higher the probability it will be cracked. The NGX is such a program, as is Photoshop or the likes. Sad, but true. So, you will always find cracked versions of such programs on the 'net. And, pirates don't need a hint here at this forum where to find what they desire.
The damages for a software house from piracy are high, and we pay for them with an ioncreased price. Increased by the "loss" of possible users, and the loss of time and resources spent to protect the product against copies.I don't agree with the statement of users downloading it illegally try it and then buy it...I think that only 3 or 4 pirates could do this. When he have it for free, fullty working, why to spend for having it legally?A good practice for some software house is to make the initial versions bugged, so with time passing, the crackers move to another product and forget to update the cracked products.It is so possible to identify users with illegal copies that are unable to update.The best thing a software house can do against piracy is to make a bad program wich is useless or the worst one avaiable. Than, noone will waste time to crack it.I think is possible that one of this products is the wilco's 737 evo... The worst FSX plane I saw for flight simulator x. One of the products that will never see my hard drive disks lol
To say that pirates would never have bought the product is flawed logic and obsurd. I don't know why some feel the need to say such things. There are those who want the product and will check if there is a cracked version before actually buying it. So yes, piracy absolutely does cost companies money. Those who steal software are leeches of society. Anyone who claims otherwise is just dillusional or dishonest themselves and looking to rationalize their own behavior. Stealing anything is wrong...period...end of story.
It violates ToS for YouTube so report the issue. The sad reality is that 60% of the population that use Software pirate software - why? Because it's so easy to do -- prosecution is easy (IP address and data packets can always be traced to and from a source, if they couldn't then this entire "internet" thing wouldn't work at all). However, I would certainly report to YouTube and PMDG regardless of what may or may not come from it as the statistical numbers add up it will force YouTube into a situation where they must enforce their ToS.
If you download a pirated copy to just check it out, and then either hate it and remove it or remove it and buy the full working version, then I think the pirated software, though illegal, has done a good thing and prevented an unhappy customer or made a sale.
My question to the developer is, yes it is not right to pirate however, does pirating cause major damages to your business? Although you can count the number of copies as lost revenue , but in reality what percentage of those pirates will actually buy the software if crack is not available ? It seems that many or most flight sim pirates never buy any add on at all , so it's false to consider that as "lost revenue". I'm just saying, i have no actual stats to prove my point of view , just from past experience. What do you think ?
I'm not agreeing with your point but there was a study done at one point, I think it may have even been geared toward flight sim addons, that showed that piracy doesn't have that much of an effect because as you said they wouldn't have bought it anyways. I'm not defending pirates here but neither am I defending FSL, DRM is one thing, intentionally installing known malware is beyond seedy, its flat out wrong.
The very definition of a pirate is "use or reproduce (another's work) for profit without permission, usually in contravention of patent or copyright." . Your view on what pirate means is ridiculous and that's your own view please don't suggest others to call it something else.
Furthermore, i'm sure that everyone , especially your senior have have pirated something in your life haven't you ? Even the smallest item. Hence , you're calling yourself " no morals, dishonest and lowest form of life " since you did not define a scale in your argument.
We have all stoles things before haven't we, that by definition makes us thieves and pirates at some point of our lives. Therefore stating that all thieves are lowest forms of life is just ridicules.
And I'm not defending software pirates here but fslabs cannot justify their action of installing DRM into our computers . Now no software is perfect , and having a DRM tool temporary in my computer technically opens a backdoor to expose all my chrome data. Now i have all by banking done on chrome , hence is it worth it that fslabs wanna catch a few thieves and put many of us at a small danger, really small danger of losing all our money. Fslabs are not stupid people, they know what they are doing , the made a conscious decision to risk all our data to catch a few pirates, which have little impact on their business. This is not the first time they have done this , back then when he made the PMDG MD-11 delete your sim's texture if a pirate serial is detected. However there are many complains of legit customers having their sim texture folder deleted, who says the same can't happen here ? If it happens , all your data is sent UNENCRYPTED to their server. Anyone with a packet sniffer can expose these packets sent and obtain all your important data. Anyone .
The one issue that I don't see being brought up here is the legality of it. Even if I did pirate it does that give FSL the right to dump my private information? To access something that would require a government agency to get a warrant? Just because I downloaded a pirated copy, (and I agree that it's reprehensible but that's not my point here), does not give FSL the clearance to hack my personal information. What they did is admitted to hacking, stealing personal information and borderline identity theft by then using that information to log onto other sites. I understand their intentions but as the old saying goes, "the road to hell is paved with good intentions."
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The one issue that I don't see being brought up here is the legality of it. Even if I did pirate it does that give FSL the right to dump my private information? To access something that would require a government agency to get a warrant? Just because I downloaded a pirated copy, (and I agree that it's reprehensible but that's not my point here), does not give FSL the clearance to hack my personal information. What they did is admitted to hacking, stealing personal information and borderline identity theft by then using that information to log onto other sites. I understand their intentions but as the old saying goes, "the road to hell is paved with good intentions."
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Plus there is no way that one can justify installing such a tool into someone's computer. Fslabs tried to justify it's actions by explaining that it will only activate for pirated copies, that is not acceptable . The best thing they should have done is a apology from the start but instead they tried to justify their actions then apologize.
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