Nice! P.S. who remembers the legendary Phrozen Crew cracks? They were minimal byte patches that often toggled a conditional jump in an MS-DOS app/game...
Razor1991 is the GOAT crew
The "Mike Hunt" Cubase for atari hack.
Reverse engineering a software crack
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Re: Reverse engineering a software crack
#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does this extend to books? movies? games?
I would extend it to the words in a book, but not the book itself. That is a physical object and therefore has real scarcity. Similarly for movies and games. Though I'm actually not against paying for access to stream media. I am however against telling people what they can do with the media once they stream it (ie saving it to their own drive for future playback).
So if you're not against paying for access to media, why are you against paying for access to software? If you're against DRM, that's an argument I can support more
Re: Reverse engineering a software crack
#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would extend it to the words in a book, but not the book itself. That is a physical object and therefore has real scarcity. Similarly for movies and games. Though I'm actually not against paying for access to stream media. I am however against telling people what they can do with the media once they stream it (ie saving it to their own drive for future playback).
So if you're not against paying for access to media, why are you against paying for access to software? If you're against DRM, that's an argument I can support more
I guess I'm not against paying for access to software, it's just that the consequence of being against restricting what people can do with it once they have it (such as redistribute it) makes paying for access seem unrealistic.
Paying for access to a media repository makes slightly more sense than paying for access a to software repository also, just given the sheer amount of data that media tends to take up vs how much data software tends to use. GNU software repositories are fairly easily hosted by hobbyists; multi-billion dollar companies often burn money trying to monetize media storage and distribution (particularly video). In that sense, there is some scarcity in media distribution. Software distribution trends to be next to nothing though.
I am also certainly against DRM, as I am any malware :P
Re: Reverse engineering a software crack
#94"downloaded torrent is a split rar. lol in 2024" That doesn't have anything to do with being old fashioned. It's about how racing works in scene FTPs. When you release something race begins starting from so called affil "sites" (group release to all their affil sites at the same time) from there it propagates to whole scene by couriers. Because of how FTP works you need to split the file into multiple files so it can…
You know too much not to be a scene member
It's all public knowledge by now.
Re: Reverse engineering a software crack
#95A nice topic and insight if not for the way it is written. I could not finish it. It feels the author is unable to articulate his thoughts without interjecting curses and write incoherently. Is this how people communicate technically in the newer generations?
> Is this how people communicate technically in the newer generations? I suspect this question is in bad faith but I'll answer anyway: this live tweeted thread is more like someone's thought stream, it is not a technical report. Many humans are capable of both technical writing, free of cursing, and also of dumping a swear-filled thought stream right into their favourite medium - especially when excitedly reverse eng…
When I say young generations I don’t mean they are incapable, but that the tools they use and influences they are subject to, are new. This seems to lead to a normalisation of personal communication rituals that are often at odds with previous norms and conciseness.
Courtesy used to be a fallback protocol in society that allowed people of different sensibilities to communicate more efficiently and without personal contexts getting in the way of subject matter. It was also non threatening and the effort put into it was a sign someone was taking the counter part seriously.