Cracked software trade???

[spelunker121]

I am in the wrong place.........

[This message has been edited by spelunker121 (edited 10-20-2003).]

[John Stevenson]

They always say there's one born every minute.
Unfortunatly they have to be raised.
What a plonker.

[spelunker121]

no plonker...im serious

[SJorgensen]

That kind of talk I wouldn't recommend.

[Evan]

Spelunker,

I suggest you reconsider what you have proposed. Take a long walk off a short pier. What a doorknob.

[Bruce Griffing]

What is cracked software??

[AmickRacing]

Basically it's a program that alters the software into thinking it's the full version.

Mastercam (and autocad?)'s cracks emulate a dongle (thing that goes on the back of the computer, telling it you bought it. Others are just a serial #.

[spelunker121]

Whats with the flames?....sorry I asked....geez.

[Evan]

Spelunker,

In the past I once spent over 1000 hours developing a software package. I sent it out to a number of software houses for consideration for publishing. I drove 3000 miles to visit serveral publishers in person to promote my work. A software house in Toronto tried to steal my program. (It's way more complicated than that, but this will have to suffice). I called in the RCMP and they recovered my work.


When someone "cracks" a program or offers a "cracked" program to others they are stealing the bread out of the children's mouths of the programmers who spent many hours trying to make a living and support themselves and their family.

You deserve all the FLAMES I CAN MUSTER. If I wasn't so nice I would kill your IP and take you off the net.

[Oso]

First because its quite illegal, which isn't the best sort of dealing to bring to this forum.
In case you do not know,
for every copy of illegal software you can be required to buy the equivalent software package to start with, and then pay three times more as penalty. Total four times the value.
try the "Business Software Alliance"

http://www.bsa.org/

Second, see first.