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I'm an app developer and I'm sure that over half of my users are pirates. I think this is a good thing. It helps me improve my productions, as I talk to the pirates and fix the bugs they find. It helps my product get out there: pirates show off their new app, and those they show it to buy it.

I believe (although, with no stats to back this up) that working /with/ pirates is better than against them.

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I'm also an app developer, but have very few (if any) pirates using my games. However, I agree that if a large group of pirates downloaded your app, it would be worthwhile to take advantage of that increased user base (even if they're not customers). The problem occurs when the negative impact from the people who pirate your app (but otherwise would have bought it) surpasses the positive impact that the pirates make on your app (e.g. suggestions, more publicity, etc.) I'm pretty sure that there is a point where the negative impacts surpass the positive impacts.

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