Kansieo.com

Before I start this post, I just want to say that it’s not my intention to sound evangelical–hopefully I don’t.

Since I started selling my plugin, I’ve been noticing my stuff on a couple of warez boards. On top of that, I get daily searches landing on my site looking for caffeinated content registration key, caffeinated content keygen, “caffeinated content” key, etc. My first instinct, and I think first instinct for any new software author is to get mad, upset and try to report these websites and/or the links on the software sharing portals like RapidShare…it’s either that or quit trying to make a living by providing top-notch money-making software.

Thankfully, I’m not going to do either. It’s not worth my time, and well, it’s good free advertising.

This is not an open invitation to warez out my software. Obviously I’d prefer that you paid for it, if you don’t do PayPal we can work something out (slave labor or something). In reality though, I accept the fact that whatever protections I use will be broken (except for the super-duper anti-cracker BFG I installed under the hood–that will break you!). I also accept that most people who receive it through less-than-savory means are also not exactly the type of people that will whip out their PayPal account and give me cash. They, in turn, have to accept the fact that they probably won’t be receiving the latest software updates, cool new money-making features, and my personal support (:)).

This is a new role for me…up to this point I’ve used my software only for personal gain in the search engine marketing world. This next step, allowing others to purchase my software, enabling others to do things they wouldn’t be able to do otherwise was a big one for me. There is a lot of stuff that goes hand in hand with online-marketing that I wasn’t exposed to before releasing Caffeinated Content for WordPress to the public. Customer service, warez, hackers, etc. Before, it was just a matter of putting up sites and waiting for the paycheck. Now, I must be constantly vigilant with updates–if WordPress or Yahoo or Google changes a bit of code, everything could stop working.

In retrospect, if you’re looking to pirate my software, email me first…we might be able to come to terms, and your server’s kneecaps won’t need to be broken.