its a plain fact dude... IT CANT BE STOPED... however i have found ways to make it harder... with trial version disable some features disable the register/unlock copy features so you have to buy it to get this feature make it very hard to crack either way it wont stop piracy... because if just our government does it and a few others... theres still the rest that wont enforce it so it will still be avaliable all over the web unless they start to filiter our internet (against the law in the usa) then they cant stop it so 1. get over it 2. stfu 3. i dont pirate 4. lol 42 5. spam is fun... 6. pay for your products 7. have fun with your products that other can get for free...

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It's not possible to stop piracy. At all, and never will be. I dare them to try to shut down all the websites that offer that stuff. Bill Gates could use ALL of his money on Lawsuits and Lawyers and barely shut down half of them. =\

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I agree with you cracking can be made harder by adopting some measures, but software companies are not adopting this to a greater extend, this may be due to the fact that, they want to only target to sell there products to schools, colleges, institutions, where the licence demand is for more computers, for the whole lab or so, and they know that these institutes will never want to have a pirated copy.

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Basically, piracy will never be stopped because where there is a will, theres a way. The more popular a program, the more likely it will be easy to find a cracked current version of that software. I mean, its almost sad how fast some stuff gets cracked.. Like you can often see games appear cracked within hours of their actual release to the public.

So mainly, very popular games, movies, and office type software (photoshop, ms office, etc) will always be found cracked in so many different places.

People need to learn that odds are you can end up finding a free version of the same kinda software faster then you can find a crack for that software from that company (eg. photoshop is expensive.. so go try gimp .. though i do admit i like photoshop much better, but thats simply because i havnt played with gimp as much yet, and i have to work with photoshop all the time at work)

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I think theres a deeper question that needs to be asked. Why do people use and help distribute pirated software?

Well for a start i dont pirate software, let me get that clear! I just use freeware alternatives But i can see why people do pirate software. Old billy gates is sitting on millions yet his software cots about £90 for an operating system. Its a disk! and its not even that good! Yet it means that you're down by £90. For me thats a lot of money, im only a student but i have three computers in my house and that would cost me nearly £300 and my parents or me dont have that to just spend! Especially when its overpriced! If it only costs £20 - £30 pounds for a fully working and good operating system them im sure that almost no-one would pirate software.

I think that companies that overprice are the ones to blame. For example students like me on computer courses might need to by very expensive software, especially those on graphics or programming courses! Yet not many vendors cut students any slack for expenses. I appluade those companies that offer free home editions of software or even discounted home version.

Im guessing someone will say "but if people didnt pirate then the prices wouldnt be so high." possibly. But i bet if prices dropped so would piracy. Its the same case with films, a cinema charges 5 pounds to see a film once and thats a student discount rate! Where as a pirate dvd costs only 5 pounds for unlimited veiws!

Same principle just different subject!

And is it really that bad?

It doesnt bother me that people use pirated software because the victims of piracy are usually those big companies who overcharge anytway!

 

 

 

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probably not since someone will alwys be trying to do it, and im sure there will always be a way of getting around things to be able to steal softwares and other things.

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One more point to stop piracy.
Every software should have two licence:

1. For personal use in a single Home PC - Distribute it free.
2. For Institutions - Sell them your product.

As free versions of popular softwares are available and with the same features, then thee is no need to buy the expensive version.

Software companies should understand if they can't stop people from making and using cracked versions, then they should start distributing it for free. The consequence wil be:

1. Closing of sites with cracked softwares.
2. Publicity of their product.

And if people like the software, they will recommend it to the institutes, they are working. Software companies should target these institutes, and should sell there products there.

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It doesn't work that way. Software privacy has been there for more than 20 years. Ever since the Internet was made, there are simply no ways to stop people from trading software online. The earliest scene was run on BBS boards on CompuServe, and people are trading cracked software on an early version email system at AOL. And then groups like Razor1911 began to surface. And they become so legendary that people from all around the world are taking part in cracking and reverse engineering. There are reverse engineers from Australia to Scandinavia, from America to China, and the tools they develop are getting more and more powerful. People are now using ollydbg and IDAPro to look at the codes directly and tools like softice are extremely user friendly to coders now. There are magazines and books teaching people the art in China and people are picking up the skill much quicker. On the other hand, boardband has become much more popular and it is not unusual to download an 8.5GB DVD-9 for about 3-4 hours. Software is much smaller compared to a DVD and so it gets transferred by BT easily. There are no ways that these two trends can be stopped easily. People are no longer checking for search engines for pirated software. They now tend to go more underground, by taking part in P2P forums which require log in and sharing for points before you can take part in downloading. The scene just becomes more accessible to non-elite users, as many people are setting up their FTP on the web easily. While it may help if those software companies check over nforce more frequently, the scene is just now so strong that it will continue to live with the Internet for the future to come. Just imagine, even software giants like Microsoft gets their codes reverse engineered and their ecliptic function encryption for keys cracked. The reverse engineers at the scene are just so talented.

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T100 has explained the history, tools and about reverse engineers nicely. Great work.


I think these engineers work at office to make the software crack proof and at home they try to find out the cracks.


As explained by T100 why softwares can't be protected against cracks. I would say, if software companies adopt my methods suggest in last post then they might be able to do so, what do other members think.

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