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re: Why are cracks illegal?
Saturday, November 6, 2004 at 2:22 am
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Posted by z (8 messages posted)

i have a good response to this old subject, in light of the .NET operating systems being released by M$...

On Sunday, November 25, 2001 at 11:06 am, UnDEAD wrote:
>I think they are illegal because they're made by reverse engineering the product
>(... but how do they prove this?), and because you're not allowed to modify the program
>in it's binary form... well... in the privacy of your system you are really allowed to do anything you want, providing it STAYS private. publicly released software is intended for the public. your private alteraton of the software is yours and yours alone. the only way to get your change added to any publicly released software is to submit the idea to the creator, in the case of M$, it is a lost cause.
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>*what the hell... you can't even debug an operating system you bought?* Well, you
>can... But you're not allowed to spread information, tools, utilities, papers on
>what you've learned... sad but true. good thing NT is reaching the end of it's lifecycle. eventually M$ will drop NT like it did DOS and not really care what people do to it as it will be most likely incompatible with the new hardware coming out in the next few years. it will become relegated to the hobbyists like me and perhaps you and M$ will care none as they will no longer make $$ on long obsolete software ( OS2 anyone?)
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