Before we start let me tell you that this is just an idea and not only it has not been tested I am also not too sure about the legal side of things. On the other hand I can see this working very well and you will get to do some good possibly.

The warez market is absolutely massive. You can upload a torrent of the most recent TV show and within hours it would be downloaded by thousands of people. There are a number of marketing techniques abusing this potentially massive traffic however I doubt anyone has ever thought about doing what I am about to tell you.

First of all you need to fake a popular application. You can tell what people are downloading by browsing a few torrent sites. Pick one with an affiliate program so that each time you would sell a copy of this software for them, you would get a percentage of the sale in commission. Once you have a target make sure your fake application is approximately the right size compared to original. Now here is the trick… Your fake application needs to scare the crap out of the person who downloads it. For example you can have your application display a huge warning up the top something along the lines of: “You have been caught downloading an illegal copy of our software”. Create a little animation that will look like it is sending some information somewhere. Then have a little popup say:”Your IP home address has been logged. You have 14 days -insert timer here- to buy a legal copy of our product -insert your affiliate link- before your details get forwarded to our legal team and your local authorities. -insert DMCA notice here-.

All you need now is to create a torrent and upload it to some torrent websites. You can even upload this fake software to Rapidshare and spread the link across all those Rapidshare link forums. Sit back and wait for sales to roll in. Obviously some people won’t care but other should be so scared they will go ahead and buy a legal copy via your affiliate link in order to stay out of legal trouble.

Once again this is just another crazy idea of mine and you should make sure what you are doing is legal if you do decide to give this a try. I assume the software company will only shake your hand for this and you will get to punish a few of those evil pirates. You will need some basic programming knowledge in order to create this application however it should not be hard at all.