Best way to go about dealing with cracked softwareLocked

Just today, my software was cracked by a user on LeakForums. This is the first crack and it works. Anything I can do?

Yes: send DMCA request to the file host(s). Also, send DMCA requests to Google for any pages that link to the crack (so it won't show up in google searches). Ditto for Yahoo, Bing.

Thanks. Appreciate it. Already got google to take it down.

Hi,

after a few years and some "Google Takedown is enough" - which cost me a lot of work, I found the following strategy to work:1) You need a good software protection to avoid "the legal number of activations for a license is exceeded". You can't avoid cracks.2) You need a way to deal with cracks. Google takedowns eliminate like 30% of the problems, but there are still torrents and filesharers...We have a number of solutions working for us now:- Crack Tracker to get down many of the filesharers (e.g. nitroflare.com, uploaded.net): http://cracktracker.net/- Muso to send DMCA requests to Google; Facebook and youtoube I do manually myself, it's very effective- CopyrightHero to get rid of the rest that Crack Tracker and Muso didn't get and know "there is somebody who really knows what he is talking taking care of it". Probably I don't need the Crack Tracker so much going forward, but I already bought it: http://copyrighthero.com/

I would recommend to enforce the second pillar of your IP protection rather a lot... I think that could increase your sales 20-30% realistically speaking... CheersJan

Thanks Jan! 👽

Thanks for sharing that, Jan. I hadn't heard of CopyrightHero before -- it seems like an interesting startup.