![]() The digital nature of software makes it both easy and impersonal for people to avoid paying (note that I did not say "steal"), which is an irresistible combination for many. Unless you oppose the very concept of commercial software, there has to be some kind of enforcement in place. Microsoft recently stated that the piracy rate of Vista is half that of XP, largely due to improvements in their Windows Genuine Advantage program- Microsoft's global registration key validation service.Īs a software developer, I can empathize with Microsoft to a degree. You could, in fact, argue that registration key validation actually works. I don't have a problem with registration keys. I'll choose biased data over no data whatsoever, every time. The BSA estimated 35% of all software was pirated in 2006, but it is just that- an estimate. But it is data, and without the registration key concept (and pervasive internet connectivity), we'd have no data whatsoever to quantify how much piracy actually exists. The vendor is never named, and given that the title of the URL is /software-piracy.htm, I'd expect it to be biased. I have no idea how reliable this data is. Occasional internet connection necessary 60 : 1 How effective is it? One vendor implemented code to detect false registration keys and phone home with some basic information such as the IP address when these false keys are entered. Like all piracy solutions- short of completely server hosted applications and games, where piracy means you'd have to host your own rogue server- it's an incomplete client-side solution. Unique registration keys exist only to prevent piracy. Our thanks to PowerPhotos for sponsoring MacStories this week.Software is digital through and through, and yet there's one unavoidable aspect of software installation that remains thoroughly analog: entering the registration key. This is a limited-time deal, so don’t delay, download the free trial of PowerPhotos today and then take advantage of this special 20% discount to make wrangling the thousands of photos on your Mac a breeze. Use the coupon code MACSTORIES19 at checkout for 20% off. The holiday season is a great time to rethink the way your photos are organized, especially because for a limited time Fat Cat Software is offering a special discount on PowerPhotos just for MacStories readers. PowerPhotos can help with migrating multiple iPhoto or Aperture libraries to Photos too. It’s a great feature that allows you to search as though all you photos were in one library. One of the app’s most powerful features is the ability to search across multiple libraries simultaneously. PowerPhotos also makes it easy to track down duplicate images and can even merge libraries together. ![]() ![]() You can store photo libraries on external or networked drives and copy photos while maintaining and preserving albums, edits, and related metadata like keywords, titles, dates, locations, and descriptions. PowerPhotos allows you to create and manage multiple libraries, so you can break up your massive library into multiple manageable libraries. As technology marches forward, digital cameras produce larger and larger image files, which makes it easy to create huge, unmanageable Photos libraries of tens of thousands of images that quickly fill valuable storage space on your Mac. PowerPhotos is the perfect Mac utility to help you manage multiple photo libraries.
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