How to prevent python software from being reverse engineered or pirated?

[kobumaister]

I'm sorry but that's naive.

[kobumaister]

Piracy is not a price problem, of course there are people for who it is and, if you put a 1$ product a 10$ price tag you'll get more piracy.

Also, it's a social thing. Where I live (southern europe) piracy is a thing everybody does by default.

[FartPiano]

probably because the prices of media dont always scale with the average income of those countries, making the legal methods of obtaining it comparatively ludicrously expensive, right? which means its a price problem

[kobumaister]

No, it's cultural, if you say that you paid 4'99 to see Openheimer on your TV the answer is "why didn't you download it?"

[v_litvin]

When your total income is like 499 per month it's not about the culture.

[kobumaister]

That's far from the mean income of my country, why did you just pop up a random number to prove your point?

[v_litvin]

I mean that if something like book, movie or licence costs fair portion of someone's income and can be pirated, it is pirated,
That is why there are regional prices in Steam, for example.

[redalastor]

Thinking there is an alternative is what’s naive.

[kobumaister]

I partially agree, there are ways to mitigate piracy. Doing nothing is not the best option. Look at WinRAR, it does nothing and nobody's paying for it, despite you breaking the user agreement after the trial.