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Nowadays, those techniques are mostly used by malware/viruses. Downloadable try-before-you-buy is dead.


No, my business is continuing to grow year on year. People seem to love installing my dead software on their dead PC's running that dead operating system Windows and they are quite happy to pay me for it.


I wouldn't say it's dead, there are many shareware software out there. For example, Topic-Starter's PVS-Studio aka PVS-Studio.v4.56.Incl.Keygen-NOY ;)


What method do you use to distribute commercial desktop software?


Tell that to the WinRar developer.




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