The team at LTLprints is lucky. No, not because nearly everyone has a naked wall that LTLprints can fill, but rather because we are not selling software for dollars - we’re selling prints. When you sell bits and bites you deal with the ease of data replication, and with that ease comes software piracy. Software piracy and copyright infringement is a hot subject these days. End users see it as a victimless crime and the “norm.”

I was going to hunt down a few ways that you should NOT deal with software piracy, but instead I thought I’d focus on one example of how you should. If you want a good way of dealing with software piracy look no further than our friends at Ripitapp.com. Ripit is “The simple DVD Ripper for Macs.” And Ripit works really well. So well, in fact, that people were starting to steal it. Instead of going on a rant the company made one simple blogpost that sums things up quite nicely. May we be so lucky to have more people like those who did RipIt…

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