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Black copies again :((

Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 1:37 pm
by Inf0Byt3
Damn it, just made a search for PB with crack and I allredy found 4.0 :evil: :shock: . This just sucks!

Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 2:00 pm
by lexvictory
but how many actually work?

Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 5:51 pm
by Jan Vooijs
lexvictory wrote:but how many actually work?
Why? Did you try them? :D :lol:

Jan V.

Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 5:56 pm
by Killswitch
Well, techinically as we've bought licenses and a licence is per-person than we should, legally, be allowed to use a pirate copy, right?

Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 6:24 pm
by dracflamloc
Um.... a crack?!

Last I knew Pb didn't need a crack. Maybe its just a trojan.

Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 9:10 pm
by Shannara
Killswitch wrote:Well, techinically as we've bought licenses and a licence is per-person than we should, legally, be allowed to use a pirate copy, right?
right.

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 5:24 am
by lexvictory
Jan Vooijs wrote:
lexvictory wrote:but how many actually work?
Why? Did you try them? :D :lol:

Jan V.
nope, proud to be licensed :D

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 10:55 am
by josku_x
*This is a joke*

@Inf0Byt3: If I would be you, I wouldn't inform others that I (you) use a pirated copy of PB :lol:
However, you are searching a bit too late, the first PB 4.0 crack came a month after the official release of PB 4.0 .. The crack group was "aRcaDe" or something like that.
I am not saying that I have downloaded the crack or otherwise work for the crack group. In fact, I lastly figured out that PureBasic isn't the right package for me, and therefore I don't code in PB anymore, but I come here to look around in this off-topic forum :wink:

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 11:31 am
by srod
What are you using now josku_x - if you don't mind me asking? Just out of curiosity. :)

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 2:13 pm
by Jan Vooijs
srod wrote:What are you using now josku_x - if you don't mind me asking? Just out of curiosity. :)
I think "it's a joke" i think!! (yes i fell almost for it to...)

Jan V.

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 5:05 pm
by josku_x
I'm now using nothing other than a HEX editor on my Ubuntu box :wink:
I'm now not on the EXE side, I am now making websites and JavaScript programs.

And with "this is a joke" I only meant this part of my previous post:
@Inf0Byt3: If I would be you, I wouldn't inform others that I (you) use a pirated copy of PB :lol:
But this is a pure fact:
However, you are searching a bit too late, the first PB 4.0 crack came a month after the official release of PB 4.0 .. The crack group was "aRcaDe" or something like that.
I am not saying that I have downloaded the crack or otherwise work for the crack group. In fact, I lastly figured out that PureBasic isn't the right package for me, and therefore I don't code in PB anymore, but I come here to look around in this off-topic forum :wink:
The crack group "arcade" really made the first PB 4.0 crack. If you don't believe me, go to google and enter something like this as the keyword: "PureBasic v4.00 winall arcade" you'll get much more to see than only the PB 4.0 crack.

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 5:52 pm
by Inf0Byt3
Yeah, i did know that, but the purpose of this post wasn't to inform you about the cracks, but to find a way of stopping it... Oh, and one question: If I download the demo version of PB, since it doesn't use serials or other direct registration methods, how can I modify it to enable the API functions or anything else? I've got a hunch that it's somebody from the inside who distributed copies :? .

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 5:57 pm
by josku_x
Inf0Byt3 wrote:Yeah, i did know that, but the purpose of this post wasn't to inform you about the cracks, but to find a way of stopping it... Oh, and one question: If I download the demo version of PB, since it doesn't use serials or other direct registration methods, how can I modify it to enable the API functions or anything else? I've got a hunch that it's somebody from the inside who distributed copies :? .
Yeah me too. And to stop this is impossible; it could be everyone who submits "cracks" of PB to the net.

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 7:01 pm
by Shannara
Not too impossible, if the purebasic compiler was "watermarked" per registered account, then there's a way to see who the leak is.

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 7:34 pm
by dracflamloc
Someone would just remove the watermark. It's been tried before.