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    Davide Pizzolato
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    I just successfully cracked an application. I know: it's illegal, I'm a criminal, ... and a sinner :~, but it's 10 time better than winning a strategy game (and of course 100 time worst than a beer with a friend :cool: ). Knowing that: - I will not redistribute the crack - I'm regularly licensed for other equivalent programs (let's say Matlab and LabView to have a target). I'd like to know if anyone have this insane attitude. Second, I found that the latest versions are easiest to crack, sometimes too easy compared with the oldest one, could it be a new commercial philosophy? ;P ;P ;P

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    • D Davide Pizzolato

      I just successfully cracked an application. I know: it's illegal, I'm a criminal, ... and a sinner :~, but it's 10 time better than winning a strategy game (and of course 100 time worst than a beer with a friend :cool: ). Knowing that: - I will not redistribute the crack - I'm regularly licensed for other equivalent programs (let's say Matlab and LabView to have a target). I'd like to know if anyone have this insane attitude. Second, I found that the latest versions are easiest to crack, sometimes too easy compared with the oldest one, could it be a new commercial philosophy? ;P ;P ;P

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      Shog9 0
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      Sounds harmless to me, provided you own the program, and don't distribute the crack. Whatever gets you off, cracker. ;P

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      • D Davide Pizzolato

        I just successfully cracked an application. I know: it's illegal, I'm a criminal, ... and a sinner :~, but it's 10 time better than winning a strategy game (and of course 100 time worst than a beer with a friend :cool: ). Knowing that: - I will not redistribute the crack - I'm regularly licensed for other equivalent programs (let's say Matlab and LabView to have a target). I'd like to know if anyone have this insane attitude. Second, I found that the latest versions are easiest to crack, sometimes too easy compared with the oldest one, could it be a new commercial philosophy? ;P ;P ;P

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        David Wulff
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        I prefer Speed, but hey - whatever floats your boat. ;)


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        • D Davide Pizzolato

          I just successfully cracked an application. I know: it's illegal, I'm a criminal, ... and a sinner :~, but it's 10 time better than winning a strategy game (and of course 100 time worst than a beer with a friend :cool: ). Knowing that: - I will not redistribute the crack - I'm regularly licensed for other equivalent programs (let's say Matlab and LabView to have a target). I'd like to know if anyone have this insane attitude. Second, I found that the latest versions are easiest to crack, sometimes too easy compared with the oldest one, could it be a new commercial philosophy? ;P ;P ;P

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          Giles
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          Your a very naughty boy. :rolleyes: So what did you do, and have to get past?

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          • D Davide Pizzolato

            I just successfully cracked an application. I know: it's illegal, I'm a criminal, ... and a sinner :~, but it's 10 time better than winning a strategy game (and of course 100 time worst than a beer with a friend :cool: ). Knowing that: - I will not redistribute the crack - I'm regularly licensed for other equivalent programs (let's say Matlab and LabView to have a target). I'd like to know if anyone have this insane attitude. Second, I found that the latest versions are easiest to crack, sometimes too easy compared with the oldest one, could it be a new commercial philosophy? ;P ;P ;P

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            James Pullicino
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            What debugger are you using? Drinking In The Sun Forgot Password?

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            • D Davide Pizzolato

              I just successfully cracked an application. I know: it's illegal, I'm a criminal, ... and a sinner :~, but it's 10 time better than winning a strategy game (and of course 100 time worst than a beer with a friend :cool: ). Knowing that: - I will not redistribute the crack - I'm regularly licensed for other equivalent programs (let's say Matlab and LabView to have a target). I'd like to know if anyone have this insane attitude. Second, I found that the latest versions are easiest to crack, sometimes too easy compared with the oldest one, could it be a new commercial philosophy? ;P ;P ;P

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              Richard Melton
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              I regularly pull annoying CD checks out of software that I use, but obviously I don't distribute them. As a legitimate owner I feel that its something that I shouldn't have to put up with.

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                What debugger are you using? Drinking In The Sun Forgot Password?

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                Nnamdi Onyeyiri
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                wdasm32.exe :~

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                  I regularly pull annoying CD checks out of software that I use, but obviously I don't distribute them. As a legitimate owner I feel that its something that I shouldn't have to put up with.

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                  Nnamdi Onyeyiri
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                  i just bought unreal tournament 2003 :-D of course, it has that annoying must have cd in drive check, but i know of a lil website, http://www.gamecopyworld.com[^] and no, they dont actually copy games [i think] but they do have a lot of no-cd cracks for games, which came in handy, i cant be bothered to keep going and retrieving a cd each time :)

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                  • J James Pullicino

                    What debugger are you using? Drinking In The Sun Forgot Password?

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                    Davide Pizzolato
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                    Some old good apps from http://www.woodmann.com/fravia/ourtools.htm[^]

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                    • R Richard Melton

                      I regularly pull annoying CD checks out of software that I use, but obviously I don't distribute them. As a legitimate owner I feel that its something that I shouldn't have to put up with.

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                      Chris Losinger
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                      Richard Melton wrote: As a legitimate owner I feel that its something that I shouldn't have to put up with unfortunately, it's against US law. consider yourself a criminal. -c


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                        i just bought unreal tournament 2003 :-D of course, it has that annoying must have cd in drive check, but i know of a lil website, http://www.gamecopyworld.com[^] and no, they dont actually copy games [i think] but they do have a lot of no-cd cracks for games, which came in handy, i cant be bothered to keep going and retrieving a cd each time :)

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                        Richard Melton
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                        Well, if you want to learn a bit about how programs get loaded and executed in a windows environment, as well as a mild understanding of assembly... you should try it yourself.

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                        • R Richard Melton

                          Well, if you want to learn a bit about how programs get loaded and executed in a windows environment, as well as a mild understanding of assembly... you should try it yourself.

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                          Nnamdi Onyeyiri
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                          i began to look into it, but stopped.

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                          • C Chris Losinger

                            Richard Melton wrote: As a legitimate owner I feel that its something that I shouldn't have to put up with unfortunately, it's against US law. consider yourself a criminal. -c


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                            Richard Melton
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                            It isn't a crime unless you pass the knowledge on. Will I'm not sure of exactly what law your thinking of (DMCA?), here's a little snippet: (2) No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that-- I hearby solemnly swear that I do not manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component that would otherwise to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a technological measure. ..but if in a educational programming sense you wanted to know how windows functions were linked to a binary (Like the API GetDriveType) and what a for loop looks like in x86 asm, as well as the effects on the CCR with test and compare functions, well thats all documented, public stuff...

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                              What debugger are you using? Drinking In The Sun Forgot Password?

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                              Richard Melton
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                              MSVC and the windows debug symbols.

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                                It isn't a crime unless you pass the knowledge on. Will I'm not sure of exactly what law your thinking of (DMCA?), here's a little snippet: (2) No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that-- I hearby solemnly swear that I do not manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component that would otherwise to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a technological measure. ..but if in a educational programming sense you wanted to know how windows functions were linked to a binary (Like the API GetDriveType) and what a for loop looks like in x86 asm, as well as the effects on the CCR with test and compare functions, well thats all documented, public stuff...

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                                Chris Losinger
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                                Richard Melton wrote: I hearby solemnly swear that I do not manufacture i guess your whole claim depends on what they mean by "manufacture". Richard Melton wrote: but if in a educational programming sense i don't buy it. there are better ways to learn what you describe, such as: writing a C program of your own and decompiling it. plus, doing what you describe could be in violation of the EULA that you read, considered and agreed to. :) b.t.w., i agree you should have the right to mess with whatever it is you buy, so long as you don't distribute it. but, i'm not sure the DCMA even allows that. and if the Hollings DRM bill passes, you certainly won't be able (legally) to do it. -c


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                                  Richard Melton wrote: I hearby solemnly swear that I do not manufacture i guess your whole claim depends on what they mean by "manufacture". Richard Melton wrote: but if in a educational programming sense i don't buy it. there are better ways to learn what you describe, such as: writing a C program of your own and decompiling it. plus, doing what you describe could be in violation of the EULA that you read, considered and agreed to. :) b.t.w., i agree you should have the right to mess with whatever it is you buy, so long as you don't distribute it. but, i'm not sure the DCMA even allows that. and if the Hollings DRM bill passes, you certainly won't be able (legally) to do it. -c


                                  Green's Law of Debate: Anything is possible if you don't know what you're talking about.

                                  Smaller Animals Software

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                                  Roger Wright
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                                  Chris Losinger wrote: what you describe could be in violation of the EULA that you read, considered and agreed to. Yeah, right...:laugh: Word of the day: Rotundacrat
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                                    I prefer Speed, but hey - whatever floats your boat. ;)


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                                    Brian Delahunty
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                                    David Wulff wrote: I prefer Speed The movie I hope ;-) Regards, Brian Dela :suss:

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                                      Sounds harmless to me, provided you own the program, and don't distribute the crack. Whatever gets you off, cracker. ;P

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                                      Brian Delahunty
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                                      I have to agree with you on that :-) Regards, Brian Dela :-)

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