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The original was posted on /r/piracy by /u/ego100trique on 2024-09-10 11:47:13+00:00.

Hey everyone, some context to add to this title, I’m a software engineer working on a paid software I’ll release soon.

It is a self hosted gallery similar to Picasa but improved in a lot of ways and focused on privacy for the user.

I’m starting to implement a license verification and was wondering how to make it to not be a headache to the end user. And after a while I started going through the rabbithole of “if a random dude do that it will compromise the license verification” and I just don’t want to make it a whole prison for the user just for the sake of blocking John Doe Pirate.

So here is my question, what would make you not pirate a software and actually pay for it?

Note: seeing the negativity toward monthly subscription (as I expected), I think I’ll offer a one time payment with a possibility of monthly payment for it instead. The goal of the monthly subscription was mainly to offer continuous support to the project and allow the user to pay a small amount monthly instead of a huge payment once and I overlooked the “you’ll own nothing and be happy” part of it.