Comment by JohnFen
13 days ago
You should discuss this with an attorney that is experienced with IP law to see what your options really are. IP law is very complex and sometimes very surprising. You need expert legal advice, not advice from the HN crowd.
As an aside, I thought that "cracked" software meant software that has had the copy protection or other access control bypassed or removed, not the alteration of the software functionality itself. If your software was actually cracked then you may have some fairly heavy law in your favor. For better or worse, bypassing access controls (even weak or simple access controls) gets special legal attention.
What is the cost for doing this, out of curiosity? If OP only earns a trickle of revenue from their site, it probably isn’t even worth the money (?)
Most state bar associations have a free consultation line that will refer you to a reputable lawyer to start with and do basic consultation on where your issue should go and how much it will be. If I had to guess, getting advice is probably $100 and having a lawyer send a letter is $250-500.
IP lawyers tend to be at the more expensive end, typical billing rate in US of $500/hr last I looked. But yes, being able to do a letter quickly is probable.
He earns 7 figs a month from it iirc, was featured many times on HN as a successful indie hacker.
>He earns 7 figs a month from it iirc,
Less than 7 figures (~1 million) per year -- not per month -- based on previous comment from 2021: https://web.archive.org/web/20240606073354/https://saastrapp...
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If that’s true, he doesn’t need free legal advice from us.
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A lot of lawyers will give a free consultation, and in my experience (not for IP) they will give decent expert advice for free. No harm calling them.