As I said, I know the author. Previously, blocks were sold separately, i.e. you could buy each block for $4-5 and it was updated constantly. But in 1.5 years of his project’s operation, he had no more than 30 sales of the product and it began to be pirated. Since the product is an individual development, it cannot be advertised, and as you noticed, Altum does not rewrite his blocks and does not kill this author by the fact that he makes developments and, in fact, is sometimes inspired by some ideas from the author Tapme. And regarding what you wrote about statistics, I wrote about the resources of the blocks that I update from AltumI think you are getting a wrong impression about what I said.
If you are selling a script, the best way to prevent piracy is not to punish your customers.
That is what the author of the script is now doing. There are many pirated scripts here but codecanyon will never say "OK because you guys are giving our stuffs for free, you are going to pay for each updates".
It doesn't work that way.
Altumcode is aware of his script being pirated here. He never say he's going to put a price on each updates.
Instead he gets creative. He creates more plugin so he can still make his money.
This is why altum customers are incredibly loyal.
And this is why I feel the author of tapme plugin is not very good with marketing. For how long do you think people will want to pay for each updates?
And why will new people buy something they know they will have to pay monthly or twice or three times a month for? When they got the main code without such money?
He should learn from altum. Let him make basic updates free. He can ask for a dollar or more for each new block he adds in new updates.
We all can see the greed on his part. No one can deny that he worked hard for the block, but altum worked even harder and he's not making half the demands as the author from tapme.
Besides, this script has not been downloaded more than 50-60 times since it has only received 100 views and I have not seen it on any pirate site except here.
So, your stats is way out of proportion. In comparison, altum scripts + plugins are on multiple sites with thousands of downloads.
But he still makes his money because he keeps both his loyal customers and pirates happy.
And you talking as though altum didn't start from zero to where he is today.
You need to fight pirates with the entire forum and hope that the Administration will figure out how to help this without introducing a paid basis, at least for example, putting hide's on resources with a lot of time or some ideas with groups.