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I think it's probably not worth worrying about unless you start seeing one person with hundreds of downloads. As No Time To Play said, there's nothing stopping them from just giving someone else the files on a flash drive, hosting a torrent, burning it to 100 CDs, etc. DRM schemes can work, but they damage the experience of your paying players and limit their ability to do legal things with their legally obtained copies. There's some question, as well, as to what percentage of pirates would actually buy the game if they didn't have any other option. That number probably isn't 0%, but I doubt it's 100% either, so keep that in mind.

In my experience it's really hard to get people to play a game at all, even if it's free. If people are interested enough to steal it that's better than no interest at all. Just my two cents.

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I full agree with everything said here. If we were to add "max number of downloads" for a purchase it would only frustrate legitimate buyers. 

Hey leafo! Maybe this is inappropriate for me to ask but is there any chance you could consider Subtext for the front page? When I first published it it was sort of a soft launch so I'm not sure if anyone at Itch saw it. I understand if it's not something you want to promote but I figured it was worth asking.

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Looks interesting, I put you up on the fresh games section on the homepage.