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- qwertywatcher, on 10/12/2007, -55/+186Copyrights are not there for the little guy.
Pirating is not wrong.
Profiteering is.
Explain to me:
In 1983 i buy a U2 album on Record... then Sony makes that obsolete so i buy the tape.. untill thats obsolete so then i buy the cd.. but it skipps after a couple months so i download it.. And i get sued? How many fricking times do i have to pay for this crap..
They are pissed cause there is no customer loyalty.. Gee i wonder why.
Maybe if companies made software worth buying we would pay money for it. Till then suck it up corps. - mitsuhiko, on 10/12/2007, -5/+93Hmmm. I hope that doesn't mean some guys sue google for that new service. Because it damn rocks :D
Regards,
Armin - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+80And how does this relate to WinZip making (what was once) the best compression program, asking for a one-time fee, and offering free upgrades for many of the newer versions?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+82Yeah, because im sure the whole "40 years of buying the same music on different formats" applies to most people who pirate.
- Bobski, on 10/12/2007, -1/+71@Steven
I doubt WinZip will freak. They haven't changed their algorithm in 10 years. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -12/+71So, how is it news that you can get serials from a search engine...?
- mrbleu, on 10/12/2007, -6/+54As someone who makes a living, and pays the mortgage, sends the kids to school, and puts food on the table thanks to honest, decent people who pay for software, I find this kind of comment totally asinine.
My end of year bonus is directly related to the (modest, less than 2%) profits my company makes from software sales, and every time I see some Russian hacker advertising yet another crack for our product, I know it will impact on my family's quality of life.
Just so you realise it is not only faceless corporations that are affected by piracy :) - kyriakos, on 10/12/2007, -4/+44ActiveMatx censoring information doesnt make it go away
- jadenguy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25"how exactly does this rock?"
he said the service rocks. not the leaking of an old old old old algorithm. it's old. the keygen for winzip has never needed an update. i thnk they realize their customers don't need that kind of hassle. anyhow, yeah, anybody who can understand and/or compile the code is using 7zip or something. and the pirates use winrar anyways. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+29digg is not a news site.
- jcronkhite, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24@hmcook87:
Who are THEY and how the hell do you know if THEY make enough?!!! Maybe you mean one of the big dogs like Microsoft? Because you really can't be taking about small developers, right? There are a lot of great applications out there that small developers charge very little for and they aren't feeding their families on the profits. If you don't like paying for ***** then install Linux and go open source. - Aaryn015, on 10/12/2007, -4/+26Well that is one way of looking at it, and a fair argument.
But I somehow doubt that most people who download daily could quantify the same argument.
Could you honestly tell me that every song you've downloaded, you have also bought at some stage. If so, well done and I agree with you. But I doubt that 99% of pirates could say the same.
Not that this digg is about music anyway. - MikeCampo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19"And dude if you think some simple code is cool then you really need to get out from the basement a little bit more often ... either that or pick up a programming book ..."
The story is for the fact that he was able to easily find serial key generators, not on just that winzip code...He could have easily used the photoshop code or the mirc...man some people are dumb. - erwlas, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19err.. nobody forces you to buy the new media.
Just because, as you quote 'Sony makes the media obsolete' doesn't mean your LP record won't play anymore. - munkt0n, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16don't copy that floppy
- .Steven, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18Links to the others would be great! :)
- GhostCrab, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13I like how most of the results for '*****' are in reference to IE exceptions in their code
- sirhomer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Cause it's better to be a pirate then a hippy
Yarr! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11yeah but I was feeling lucky.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13Sssh guys! ActiveMatx is listening!
- JamesWilson, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11http://google.com/codesearch?q=%22non+disclosure+agreement%22
http://google.com/codesearch?q=%22You+are+not+expected+to+understand+this.%22 - Teaboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8BASE. Not BASES. There is only one base that belongs to us.
http://google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=%22ALL+YOUR+BASE+ARE+BELONG+TO+US%22&btnG=Search - interiot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I for one didn't realize that Google CodeSearch existed, and even if I had a passing glance at it, I would have had no idea it was so effective/useful.
- JamesWilson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_be_dragons
- jadenguy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9dude, you can STILL buy a record player. at pennies on the dollar for what it was bought for. rca outs haven't changed in forever, and so long as speakers are analogue, neither will speaker cables. you payed for the fancy little tapes that load from the front and the fancy little cds that don't need rewinding because you wanted to. fact is, you couldn't even archive a copy of that old record onto another record without a hundred times the effort of backing up a tape or a cd. and the new format lets you hear it in higher fidelity as well as bringing it to new audiences.
that said, i've got more than the largest ipods' worth of mp3s, and don't even ask me about flac files... - bart666, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Also, http://google.com/codesearch?q=%22here+be+dragons%22
(We coders say the silliest things) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Lol...so what?....that link doesn't really find anything...
- eksmith, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@imtigger2
lol dang dude... WOAH lets make a HUGE deal out of nothing.... if you don't like it... just don't digg it. heh. - afex2win, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6@qwertywatcher
"Maybe if companies made software worth buying we would pay money for it. Till then suck it up corps."
thats a rediculous statement. you're saying photoshop is junk? the only peices of software that people bother to download are the ones they deem worthy enough to use!
photoshop was not made so you could put your friend's head on somebody else's body and send it in a funny email. just b/c you want to use it for that doesn't make it too expensive. if you wanted to use the flame from a shuttle launch to toast your bread, would you complain that the spaceship costs so much more than a toaster? - samdotorg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6"And dude if you think some simple code is cool then you really need to get out from the basement a little bit more often"
More like get IN the basement more often... - cg0def, on 10/12/2007, -10/+14first of all STICK TO THE TOPIC and 2nd if you download and use warez then the program is deffinitely worth buying. Maybe the price is too high but that's a totally different topic.
- furto, on 10/12/2007, -12/+16look... jesus was all for p2p! he turned a few fish and some bread into a banquet! thus making file sharing legal... it will hold up in court! i swear!
- swensnt, on 10/12/2007, -12/+16> In 1983 i buy a U2 album on Record... then Sony makes that obsolete so i buy the tape.. untill thats obsolete so then i buy the cd.. but it skipps after a couple months so i download it.. And i get sued? How many fricking times do i have to pay for this crap..
Once. Keep on playing the vinyl. ;-)
CDs and tapes suck. - reklus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Better zip functionality than winzip has been built into windows for the past 4 years. It's even integrated into explorer.
Winrar even allows you to open ISO files. - mianos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It gets funnier: "css crack"
http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=css+crack - sygnate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Wow..even virus and worm implement codes too..
http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=+photoshop+keygen+show:DT4GZv-sLog:nfxiRJOViBs:mGhrV9gqI-I&sa=N&cd=3&ct=rc&cs_p=http://chneukirchen.org/tmp/RRLF_issue_6.zip&cs_f=viruses/fourcpp.htm#a0 - fgsfds, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6"First off by posting this you are screwing the software developers. Secondly [...] ive been using google for finding serial numbers for quite a while."
Do you proofread before you post? - giveer, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6I bet my parents would be proud of me if I could understand half of those algorithms. Actually, screw that, *I'D* be proud of me.
- ryan_merket, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5@hardside
I am not an idiot. In fact, I have wrote many of keygens in my past. That is why I search for them in the Google Codesearch (I even found some *I* wrote as tutorials to other crackers)...
Yes, I used tone to sell my story to Digg.. the "WOW" factor if you will... and guess what? It worked. 1,200 diggs at the time of this comment.
Stop hating. - petroK, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7here, here! (though off-topic)
Its only buying the rights if it means the consumer has to pay more, otherwise its buying the physical media and the rights?
Of course software is a little different because damage to the physical media is less of a problem (seeing as you often only use the disc at install) and losing the software key to a $50-500 computer program seems a little less justifiable than misplacing, breaking or damaging a $15 music record/casette/disc. And if the software is "not worth buying" and not FOSS, then it is really hard to justify stealing it morally. I mean I'm not saying it isn't common or something I have never done, just that piracy IS stealing, and pointing to a personal exception to the capitalist system of profit doesn't make pirating software any less illegal or immoral.
but on the side issue of music copyrights, that is a very good, and seldom referenced point. - chucker, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Funny as it is that such code would come up, I can't think of any good reason why someone would use WinZip. I've always found it to be a horrible excuse of a software.
Why not try 7-Zip? Free, open-source, simple interface, available in many languages. - Flanker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3//This check is actually hardcoded into Winzip
//You can google it :)
Oh the irony. - .Steven, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5http://google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=*****&btnG=Search
45: long ***** = 99; - martinus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Any software project that consists of more than a few files and that does not have any TODO or FIXME tags in them, has a problem: It simply is not possible that everything is perfect, and if those tags are missing it just means that all the todo's are not marked as such.
- mqmatt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://google.com/codesearch?q=TODO => 999,000 hits.
http://google.com/codesearch?q=FIXME => 561,000 hits.
Ouch - I'm going to live in a cave. - imtigger2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2WinZip used to be the big dog on the block, and I can even remember a time when I paid for it. However, after years of "upgrades" that included only making the interface prettier, I got tired of paying for it.
Winrar is the way to go. It's much faster, and can open more files... and seriously, when was the last time you actually saw the winrar main program window? Meaning... you can right-click on files and get anything done without ever having to open the main program! WinZip is bloated. - bdawg923, on 11/07/2007, -0/+2I can't be impressed if I don't know how to use the code to be impressed.
- mondain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=%22engineers+are+%22&btnG=Search
http://google.com/codesearch?q=+%22girlfriend+%22&sa=N
http://google.com/codesearch?q=%22pr0n+%22&btnG=Search&hl=en&lr= - bart666, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5It's probably based on what a decompiler found. And skript kiddiez don't really know much about optimisation (or even know what it is).
- AnotherBrian, on 10/12/2007, -3/+51) Sony didn't make records or tapes or CDs obsolete. The entire industry moved forward.
2) Records and tapes and CDs are not obsolete. They still play and you can still get the equipment to play them. Wax cylinders and 8 tracks are obsolete.
3) You can buy recordable tapes and CDs to transfer your records too.
You do have a point (although you didn't make it) that if one buys DRMed music now that can be MADE obsolete by Sony(or others) any time they want. See MS PlaysForSure vs. the Zune. http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2006/09/19/Zune_doesnt_play_for_sure/ -
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