You identified a Pirate, how do you handle them? Usually with a lot of shame!
This Youtube video on different Anti-piracy measures for games through the years. It shows that there are better solutions than simply quitting when you identified a Pirate. If done well, you can entice them into spending money.
It was not anti-piracy exactly, but my all-time favorite story regarding how to annoy your customers for not registering. Ambrosia Software’s “Escape Velocity” for the Mac was a popular game, that you could play for free, for a while. After a given amount of time, if you did not register it, when you left a space station to head into deep space, an indestructible space pirate would pop up, and remind you to pay for the game. At first, it would just send radio messages. If you ignored it, it would start shooting at you for minor damage. If you ignored that, the shots became more deadly. I once left the game for a year, came back to play, and the pesky pirate blew me away with one shot. Definitely the most humorous I had ever been told to not be cheap!
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