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Originally Posted by Libertine
Then you must have been focusing on the lower end of the market.
If you focus on the higher end of the market, and build up a relationship with some of the main hosting companies, it gets much easier. A few years back, when I still worked as programmer, I had several hosting companies notify me of people trying to pirate my software on their servers when they spotted it.
Small-time webmasters would try and steal stuff, of course, but professionals usually paid. And a number of the small-timers "upgraded" to legal versions once their business grew, so even the piracy wasn't a full loss.
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Low end or not, there has to be a way to protect code without switching to compiled languages.
My favorite incident was when a little shithead from eastern Europe took my code, modified the admin templates and was selling it as his own creation. I did pursue him until he stopped but that was really a wakeup call for me.