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Originally Posted by brad
i honestly believe companies like Adobe want people like you to pirate their software. they hope you will learn to use it on your own, get tied to their product, and then purchase it when you go to work for a business.
as soon as a new version of photoshop comes out, the key/crack is easily found with a google search .. and they allow you to download the full featured software in 'trial mode' .. that is so easily cracked, they have to be doing it on purpose.
even if you don't want to do anything 'illegal' .. just go download the 30 day trial. it does everything.
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Very true.
They take just enough precautions to prevent the average-joe from cracking it.
If they really wanted to make it secure, they would do what apple does with Logic pro, a USB key that needs to be plugged in for the program to launch - still crackable (and has been), but it takes a freaking lot of work to do it.
The best way, IMO, to prevent software from being cracked would be to code a small script that connects to the internet, and sends the software key out for verification. Stick it in many, many places of the program, and make many of the functions call that script - calling the script from a different file nearly every time. GL cracking it, you would have to re-write hundreds of files.
Ok enough geek talk.
What about the banners? lol