Hi Liam and all, I haven't cracked any of your games, but I think I can offer up some explanation as to why people are cracking your games. To understand you need to get into the mind of a cracker and software pirate. A few years ago, back in my late teens and early 20's, I use to heavily be into the cracking and software piracy thing before I decided to go clean. Usually what it boiled down to was a self-righteous attitude like, "why should I pay for something if I know where to get it for free?" On one hand I knew steeling was wrong. I would have never walked into a Wal-Mart, Best Buy, or some place like that and stole a music cd, software cd, or dvd movie off the shelf. I saw that as steeling and criminal behavior. On the other hand I saw nothing wrong with copying something. It is hard to explain, but I had a thousand excuses why copying, pirating, was not wrong. So and so was willing to give me a free copy, why pay for it if I can get it for free, it is only a copy not stolen,etc. It never crossed my mind weather I copied that music or software cd or stole it outright from the store someone lost money from my piracy. Bottom line at that time in my life copying or pirating something simply did not bother my conscience. I can remember at college there were a group of us tech types that passed around pirated software like it was candy or bubble gum cards. When one of us got a copy of say MS Office we would zip the cd and put it on Res Net. When Windows 98 came out whoever got a copy burned copies for everyone else, or put it on Res Net for download. We didn't think anything about it. It was just something we did. Around 5 years ago I began attending church, and I started to reexamine not only my life, but the way I viewed things. I concluded after a while that weather I copied software or stole it directly from Best Buy, Wal-Mart, or somewhere else it was still steeling. It took me a long time during my baptismal classes to come to terms with that fact.I also had to figure out why I refused to accept copying software and music was wrong. You want to know why I copied software and music without a conscience? Well, the answer comes down to some very basic human desires. The human heart and mind is greedy. I wanted that software, music, etc but I didn't want to pay for it. If I paid for it that was money I couldn't use for something else I wanted. I wanted everything, but I didn't want to pay for it all. I actually couldn't pay for it all so I decided to steel it, and then sweep it under the mental rug out of view of my conscience. Then, excuse it by saying something like, "copying software isn't like armed robbery." In my own personal experience the only cure for piracy is a conscience. Weather the person is a Christian or not they need to believe that piracy is wrong. They need to recognize there greed, and hold themselves accountable for that greed. They need to let go of their desires for material things, and look for non-material things in life such as love, friendship, happy memories, etc. To value the things in life that are truly worth while, and can bring true joy. Liam, I'd just like to say that the piracy and cracking of your games has nothing to do with what you did or did not do. The people steeling your games are simply selfish, greedy, unsympathetic, and unsatisfied pinheads with no conscience. I sincerely doubt they even know themselves why they are driven to steel, pirate, and copy. I sure didn't back in my bad old cracking days. Hope this helps.
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