Hi, folks!
As you know, I have a huge personal problem with Russians. So it is obvious, I want to exclude Russians from getting The Spell of Mastery and my other programs. A political statement if you will. But what is the best way to achieve it?
Guess stating openly "sorry, we don't serve Russians" will not work, because many countries have some commie anti-discrimination laws. But will saying "Unfortunately this software doesn't currently work in Russian Federation. We work hard to fix the issue." do the trick?
Then we also have problem with Russians, who downloaded software illegally. My idea is to include harmful code into program, which, when detects Russian locale or Internet address, starts sneakily damaging files under user's home directory (or maybe even download child pron there and call cops?). That should scare Russians enough to stop downloading it illegally, even if pirates promised to break the protection, because pirates can never guarantee that all protection checks were removed - they don't analyze whole hay stack, just look for the known needles.
Now if these Russians start complaining about lost data, I can just shift blame to software pirates or viruses, and claim that it were crackers who included harmful code (many of them do it anyway). And because license doesn't allow disassembling the executable, there is no legal way to prove that is my work.
What do you think?
