--- In [email protected], Uli Kusterer <witness.of.teacht...@...> wrote:
> There may be more cracks and serials out there, but they're uninteresting if > user's can't find them. And a few crackers who want a free copy can be > chalked up as a marketing expense. In fact, maybe one should go the PS2 > hacking route: Sony made the PS2 open for Linux geeks so they wouldn't bother > trying to crack it seriously (the smart guys generally want the challenge > more than the free games, so if the challenge isn't there, there's less > hackers interested in trying). I don't know if it worked out (supposedly the > new one is locked down). So maybe give free serials to hackers, so they don't > bother trying to crack or keygen? ps3? Apparently you can install linux on it, but it wasn't allowed to access some of the hardware (e.g. GPU). So they hacked the hypervisor. http://rdist.root.org/2010/01/27/how-the-ps3-hypervisor-was-hacked/ I guess the moral is, you're never going to stop it. I guess the only thing to do is not make it too easy for them but don't worry too much about it. I received an email from someone saying that they couldn't get my trial period to work so they cracked it. I sent them an email back saying 'nice work! if you'd asked I'd have sent you a free license' and sent them a free license anyway. I figure I didn't lose anything by doing that and if I was considering having a policy of responding to users who I know are running cracked versions but ask for support with a free license. At least that would make them legitimate and more likely to upgrade in the future (maybe) if not then I've not lost out as far as I can see. That said... I haven't updated my software in a looong time, been busy with other projects so I'm not doing this for a full time job at the moment (more stuff in the pipeline though). Richy
