

We’re not trying to harm the customer - we’re trying to harm those sellers. The software includes this message to inform them that their copy is not legitimate, and it’s necessary for us to do this because some retails are selling pirated copies of LightBurn. That makes more sense than accusing them of something they may, or may not be guilty of.Īnd this topic is now closed from further input from me. And if your wrong about them, it makes you a lot worse then they are! Find out, give them a discount for being taken advantage of and bring them into the group of registered users. If you don’t educate them and accuse them without knowing the truth, you really aren’t any better than you think they are. Educate them to not obtain pirated copies. I went to the web site and didn’t see any mention of authorized dealers. One would be to have authorized dealers listed on the web, and make it clear that nothing purchased outside those sources are legitimate or supported copies. There are a number of ways to curtail that problem by education. And if I knew how to reach those who bought one of those books, I would put them on the email list for the new edition coming in a few months.

Not everyone purchasing a knockoff is necessarily guilty of bad behavior. And I lost thousands of dollars in royalties. Is anyone who purchased that book guilty of stealing? No at all, I bought a copy and was amazed at how well they had copied and printed the book. It looked exactly like the original except for the paper weight used. Its a 478 page book on development and it was being printed and sold in the US by a foreign printer. I had a book that was published in 2004, and a friend complained about the price of a new copy two years ago.

I have been in software development for almost 47 years. How would they know that? Price, telepathy, common knowledge? If no one knows what they thought, maybe someone should ask them. Well, that’s assuming they knew it was a knockoff.
