Why we make you use an activation code

We need to know who has which copies of the program. This helps us to know who is buying the program, and allows us to keep your costs low by preventing software piracy. The Software Publishers Association (SPA) estimates that over 50% of business PC software is illegally-used, and over 65% of personal PC software is illegally-used. This is stealing. Software companies cannot operate unless they are paid for what they produce.

We could raise prices to cover our costs, but this penalizes our honest customers by making them pay for the pirates’ copies of the software. Instead of that, we keep our price low and make it nearly impossible to illegally use The Scoop™. We plan to know everyone who buys our program, and to make it so that any illegal copy of the software is traceable, identifiable and practically unusable. This means that we’ll be paid for our hard work, and in turn, you’ll be paying less for the software and for technical support.

What This Means

In order to use The Scoop™, you are required to register the program.