Some people could say you have just reinvented Java.
Seriously, this could be seen as a bug and would not cause the pirate to buy your program. It wouldn't cause him to recommend it to others either. He'll think your program is crappy and get something else (perhaps free software). So if you do that as software author, you gain nothing at all.
No, better do something that let's the software behave like a demo. For example, stop encoding after 21 minutes of input. The user then can still have a clear picture of what your software would be able to do - if he bought it. After that, encode some frames with some text like "this was encoded using a pirated version of FOOBAR" if you want. However, I'd rather put such a text in a comment field of the video file if possible.
Of course, if you want to be funny instead, let it start a BitTorrent in the background downloading and uploading your favorite Linux distribution. This might even be legal (but IANAL) - and the software pirate will perhaps help the community by providing some upload to the torrent.
Good idea, but how did that work? Did it phone home to find that out? Or was it a serial for the "wrong" release of the program (like if there's multiple releases, but codes work with always only one)?
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Seriously, this could be seen as a bug and would not cause the pirate to buy your program. It wouldn't cause him to recommend it to others either. He'll think your program is crappy and get something else (perhaps free software). So if you do that as software author, you gain nothing at all.
No, better do something that let's the software behave like a demo. For example, stop encoding after 21 minutes of input. The user then can still have a clear picture of what your software would be able to do - if he bought it. After that, encode some frames with some text like "this was encoded using a pirated version of FOOBAR" if you want. However, I'd rather put such a text in a comment field of the video file if possible.
Of course, if you want to be funny instead, let it start a BitTorrent in the background downloading and uploading your favorite Linux distribution. This might even be legal (but IANAL) - and the software pirate will perhaps help the community by providing some upload to the torrent.
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Don't hack your hidden directories or use the double slash after their name!