Piracy is a big deal here. You won't believe. There are stands on the
streets where you can find music CDs, software, VHS movies, DVD movies, just
about everything on burned CDs/DVDs. You can buy them anywhere in the city.
Some people even sell DVD movies and VHS movies (burned/copied) on highways
while there's a trafic jam, and the movies are sold starting the same day
they are first presented in the cinemas (some even before that).
Even though there are laws that prohibit this kind of things, they are not
applied at all. Authorities are aware of this but simply do nothing about
it. You can find the stands every day on the same location, sometimes even
in malls. Sometimes you can find police officers buying this stuff (mostly
you see them only walking by the stands). And it's not like they're hiding
the ilegal merchandise; you see the CDs exhibited in endless rows and piles.
Of course in the slim CD cases with badly inkjet printed covers, or with no
covers at all............ I think you get the point.
I'm afraid that if I start selling my software, eventually another developer
will get it somehow and start using my assemblies without permission, profit
from it, and there will be no way for me to stop him. Not even legally! So
after I spent a lot of time developing my application, and hoping to make a
living out of freelance software development, no one will buy my software if
they can find it burned on the street on their way home, or in the best of
cases if they can buy a cheaper version that uses my stolen assemblies.
Can anyone suggest a good way of preventing my software from being stolen? I
know big companies spend lots of money trying to accomplish this, and
there's always a way around, but anything that might help will be greatly
appreciated.
Thank you
Ignacio Domínguez