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Why Encrypt?
Agriya has taken the decision to start pro-actively licensing it’s software. When Agriya first began selling software 13 months ago, we encrypted all the files to prevent piracy. Our customers were understandably up in arms about this and the complaints kept flowing in.
In order to appease our client base, we removed the encryption and licensing, a decision we have now come to regret. Check out the numbers below and see why we have become so disturbed:
Agriya Software Piracy Stats
Number of sites illegally using our software: 379
Number of sites giving our software away for free: 86
Number of people trying to sell our software: 33
Number of DMCA notices served to date: 104
Number of files removed from file sharing sites: 819!
Piracy of Agriya’s software has reached a stage where we must take back control of our software and licensing, and if it means encrypting a few key files, then we are prepared to lose a tiny fraction of business to ensure our software is not pirated any more.
We currently employ two people full time to locate, track and remove people and websites who are sharing our software.
Agriya feels that it has no other decision than to start licensing our software pro-actively in order to combat software piracy. We tried it with open source access, and it was abused.
The first software to be licensed is Rayzz. In total there is one file encrypted that controls the script. The other files that are encrypted are for the licensing purposes. The file that has been encrypted should in no way hinder your prospects of customizing the code, adding new modules or customizing the template – the encryption is completely low impact.
There is also a call home feature built in to the software licensing. This basically calls back to Agriya’s server and finds out if it’s alright to run the script. Again, this is low impact and you won’t even notice the process going on as it’s designed to call home once every 15 days and you are allowed three attempts incase our server is down.
Over the coming weeks the rest of our software will be rolled out with the licensing and low impact encryption.
I sincerly hope you can appreciate why we have had to take these steps, and I’m really sorry if this causes any inconvenience. Of course, on a case by case basis we can review the encryption – for example if you are doing some heavy modification through Agriya.
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The reason is your products are amazingly high priced, no offence I also do not see a great quality in your products too which makes people spend their money.
This is a saturated market you mush remember.
Piracy cannot be accepted in anyway, Jamie. If it is highly priced means, you just ignore it; look for free alternatives. I also think Agriya should take proper care when protecting its software. Whether the script has been protected by ioncube or zend guard, somehow it has been ‘nulled’ by professional nullers. Agriya should think in a new way to avoid piracy. For eg, Agriya may develop a bot that automatically detects and reports illegal sharing of agriya products in file sharing system, just like warez forum bots that reports the files that are removed from hosting server.
You have to accept a certain amount of piracy with almost any digital product, with our latest release we didn’t bother with any kind of copyright protection. Added development time + ongoing maintence just didn’t outway the chance that we would miss some sales.
I think the best way to combat piracy is to either offer so much value with support, add-ons & membership that people will want to pay for your product.
The reason they steal is becuase it’s so expensive. $247 + if you want to remove the copyright stuff like who this script was made by Agryia and so on you are looking to spend quiet a bit.
I don’t understand why if someone purchases the full version they don’t get your information removed so that the website has no links linking to your website. Someone people might choose to but other would like the option on having a clean site to look like they designed it all.
I think a fair price would be $147. I myself am really interested but just can’t afford to spend that money if I am not sure that I will have a large enough audience to make some money back.
John, possibly our software isn’t aimed at people like yourself then? Agriya certainly isn’t the only company to offer copyright removal, all the major players like Jive, vBulletin, Invision, Kayako, iDevAffiliate include some kind of encryption, call home feature and offer copyright removal for a small fee.
If $247 is too expensive, how about looking to some open source software? Joomla with some addons could make quite a powerful script, but of course, you wouldn’t get the technical support and regular updates you would get from Agriya, which is part and parcel of what you are paying for. Unlimited support and updates isn’t cheap to provide!
We have certainly discussed going open source for some of our products, and I’m quite an advocate of it, but we have to balance that with the fact that we have 200+ staff to pay each month.
Each product has 2-3 full time developers / designers / css people working on it, a full time sales rep, an SEO team, content writers, full time support technician…you get the picture! It’s a case of basic business 101, price vs units shifted. We need a price of $247 to pay the staff and still make a profit, if we price it any lower we don’t make enough to cover the staff costs.
To follow up quickly, just look at the number of updates and feature additions we’ve made to Volume:
Volume Updates
I challenge you to find any other similar product that even comes close to the amount of support and commitment that Agriya gives