#Mega.nz istripper crack software#

You don't need to work on a 'real' dongle until you have perfected your method, and you can get more than one 'real' dongle by getting another one from the originating software company for the legitimately-purchased license (I assume these crackers will have access to a company with a service contract like that).

#Mega.nz istripper crack crack#

If the stakes are high enough (a $20k software component that you can sell on the black market for $1k-$2k a piece if you crack it properly), why not set up a front company, get some of those samples, and work on those. Naturally, those companies would like some samples, and possibly some development samples. Those companies, in turn, want to sell their dongles to other companies to secure their products. Why would that be ? These companies usually outsource to companies dedicated to making those dongles.

As for crackers not obtaining a ready supply thereof.

#Mega.nz istripper crack cracked#

In the above scenario, it really just takes ONE cracked dongle to get at the executable code. Yet, you usually find a cracked version of AutoCAD in certain circles, anyway. Want to exchange a broken one for a new one a month after the 'service contract' that was tacked onto the 'purchase price' expires ? Tough noogies.Īrchitects and engineers put up with it in large part because there are few or no alternatives that do not do the exact same thing. Want that parallel port dongle working on your shiny new laptop ? Forget it. Want that 'old' (2 years) dongle supported ? Forget it. Without fail, they have also gotten more and more burdensome on the regular users of the software. I have seen some of these systems first-hand over the years, always getting more and more intricate. I would not call it impossible, having seen what has been cracked in the past and what a decent financial incentive will do for the motivation to crack. This scheme is highly resistant to cracks, provided the part of the executable is well-chosen to not be recreatable, and typical attackers cannot obtain a large supply of dongles. The dongle is designed to self-destruct when cracked open. In the course of the program's normal execution, some data is sent to the dongle, processed, and sent back. CAD toolkits) ship with a USB dongle containing a CPU and part of the executable in encrypted form. Just be glad that now that there is an 'official' fix for your problems. But does anyone here honestly believe that only the guys that bought the product are the ones using the crack? I don't think so. I'm not saying that you shouldn't be able to fully use the product you bought. And everyone should have thought that even if the company sucks at supporting its users (first wrong) that doesn't forgive anyone for pirating software (second wrong). It's a company, it's supposed to make a profit, not to create software out of pure charity.Īnd no, two wrongs don't make it a right, you're right when you said it. You know, people have worked to develop the product. So it's OK if you steal from a company, but it's NOT OK if a company uses, to fix their own product and provide the support everyone cries for, something that was made specifically to target that company's product making it easier to pirate. So everyone uses cracks to go around copy protection schemes when they're not supposed to, and then when that company uses that crack to fix a problem, everyone is outraged. People use pirated software -> companies lose money -> companies invest in trying to avoid illegitimate usage of their software -> copy-protection schemes are put in place -> problems with copy-protection schemes arise -> people who don't give a shit about the fact that the software was a result of an investment in both equipment, marketing and man hours still keep finding ways to pirate the software.

There wouldn't be any need for anti-piracy schemes if people were trustworthy and didn't steal software. Regardless of what support the company has given its costumers, remember that the crack was made to circumvent anti-piracy schemes.