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> Years from now, you might search ”keygen for X” and be shown pages of results related to this product instead of pirated software.

Care to bet money on that? That's rather shocking hubris.



Actually, this gave me an idea. The founder of keygen.sh can generate landing pages advertising cracks/serials/keygens for download on tons and tons of different software.

When the search engines index these landing pages, whoever has an alert setup to monitor their products will get a notification about your website. Let google automate your marketing.

The other benefit is that you can use your logs as a sales tool when pitching your product to developers. "Hey Developer, 38 people came to <<url>> today looking for a crack/serial to your <<software name>>." Hopefully those developers will then visit your page for more information which turns into a sale.


This is brilliant in principle.

However, does it run afoul of acceptable SEO practices? Namely those covering autogenerated content.


Thank you. It would come down to execution.

One way to solve that is to track "scene releases" [0] and download the releases for software you think could become keygen.sh customers. Then reverse engineer the cracks or patches and document the process. Next, show how keygen.sh would have prevented this cracking technique. Now you have original content that will help you sell keygen.sh.

A byproduct of this will continuously give you ideas on how to improve keygen.sh.

It is very important to note that keygen.sh or any licensing platform will ever be uncrackable but if you can delay the time software gets cracked by a week or two then it could possibly translate into more sales for the keygen.sh customer.

At the end of the day, it is on the keygen.sh customer to sell their product and keygen.sh to delay the release of a crack for it.

[0] https://torrentfreak.com/27-years-of-warez-scene-release-inf...


>Then reverse engineer the cracks or patches and document the process.

Sounds prohibitively work intensive in the extreme.


There could be ways to automate the process [0] with machine learning [1].

[0] https://www.cuckoosandbox.org/

[1] http://www.covert.io/research-papers/security/Automatic%20An...


Not really... but what's the point of starting a business if you don't believe in it? I wasn't stating it as fact; it was more of a 'wouldn't this be cool' statement--sorry if I came off wrong.




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