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Exactly!!!
To see if i can get any warez junkies to shed a tear...what if you had 12 kids and a wife that were dependent on your salary to get them by and you were an independent software developer, and the only revenue came from your business. Then a warez copy of you latest program came out and you started to lose major money and your family started to go hungry, you lost your job and your house, your wife ran away, your kids sent to an orfanage (am good speller) and you were left all alone to die...JUST because a bunch of "crackers" decided to distribute a cracked ver of your program. :(
D!m
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ok, you're over over over over over exagerating it all
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You mean a bunch of kids who call themselves "|_33+ h4><0|2z" ? (Did anyone get that?)
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Most people who call themselves hack0r and what not, they're all just wanabes, real hackers dont use l33t talk, and expose themselves, to be a hacker is to do alot of research on your own, and no go "ohhh I'm gona crash yer puter boy" also far as the shed of tears, hehe belive me I've wrote software, any software I Felt worthwhile the cost, I have actually paid for (most were under 100 bucks, and most were developed by one man corporations) but I've written freeware in the past, to give back to people who want somehting quick and fast, also one should be so proud that someone would be eager enough to crack their program (that is if it doesnt effect them greatly financially) there is a saying out in the warez community , which I feel is true, nothing is uncrackable, eventually it'll be cracked. (not something we should have to live with, but hey it happens) I used to write software for a small warez group, oh also I never hang around in the major warez channel, especially not the major warez populated IRC servers like Dalnet, Efnet, Etc, feds are always watching those places, I get my stuff from more private reasoures (or eh I used to get my stuff that way) , so I write code, I teach people how to program, I share code, I'm a tipmaster at tek-tips.com , I'm paying for my domain and webhosting(I gota start doing someont with that page, or it's money to waste) bunch of stuff, and heck no, I'm not saying I should or deserve to grab this stuff fer "Free" hehe. But I'd be glad to offer any common advise for the stuff that most crackers easily look at. also there is probally ALOT more people who have the software pirated, than the companies even know about.
two reasons why some Warezers, will end up paying for software(maybe three):
* They just couldnt crack it got fustrated and cought up the money
* They felt the software was actually worth the money asked for, and wanted to get support + etc
* (maybe) they felt sympathetic with the programmer.
I'm not as heavy into the biz as I used to be, I may have grabed a few games here and there, but not into the appz, or dev tools anymore since I Can get those through company/enterprise lisence.
oh a word on Game Programming, I've known a few game programmers (like for Quake-like games), this is a paraphrased quote from one.
"Game programming is one of the most borring, the hardest, and fustrating type of programming out there... but it sure is fun as hell to play the final product"
I guess for many programmers, they do it for money, I program for the love of it, it's almost like sculpturing, you've Created something, and you are able to pass that knowledge to the next person.
oh one product that is freeware, that I obsolutly love (facint some major bugs discovered after 2 years tho) is the creator of WarFTP Deamon (Warez best friend :} ) , jgaa.com , currently 1.71 is the latest, because all versions prior has a security bug, also I'm awaiting 3.0, this software is free for non-commercial or goverment use (gota love that, keep the big guys hands off it, and help all the little guys like us) has one of the best FTP servers compared to all the Retail stuff, just shows what a little lovin for programming goes. of course if people ***** at ya , you could just say "hey you got it for free, stop bitching"
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Well.
If i knew it was some inde software devloper making a app..i wouldnt try to crack it or anything like that..i would buy it if i had the money..or just leave it alone..
BUT when it comes to mega gazillionars like billy Gate$
He can afford for some of his stuff to be cracked.
"I know am an *******...it says so on mah birth certificate"
