Yeah that's one of my worries/complains about shareware. I don't have the time and/or anti-cracking security knowledge to prevent it, so I guess I'll just have to deal with it. It's an app directed at "normal people" and not tech nerds, so hopefully that will help.

It sucks that a SaaS/webapp type pricing plan isn't viable, but again this is a very desktop oriented thing that wouldn't work elsewhere. So I'm just trying to figure out the BEST way to release this.

Fortunately, the average computer user doesn't know how to find and/or used cracked software. Personally, I wouldn't worry about this much. Almost all well-known software has been cracked. That didn't seem to stop them though.