| Phrozen Crew
is a well known bunch of bastards. Their main goal in this life
is to steal money from shareware authors by mass-releasing pirated
software. They usually make a small program that modifies a few
bytes in a program so that all limitations are removed. They have never been good enough to crack Audiograbber. Instead, they use the following technique: 1) Purchase an Audiograbber copy (preferably with a stolen credit card number). 2) Download the full version and use a patch program that compares the free and the full version. This creates a huge patch with the differences between the free and the full version. It takes no skill at all to do this, they can as well patch MS Word to become Adobe PhotoShop if they want. Audiograbber 1.21 had this special unlock method where the full version needed an unlock code for every single computer it is run on. This code was dependent on the hard disk's serial number and could only be calculated from cgi-bin programs on my servers. This left two new options for Phrozen Crew: 1. Modify the full version so the unlock code wasn't needed. They failed. 2. Disassemble the .exe file and create a key generator. They failed. After one month they came up with a solution! They released the patch program together with a program where you could manually change your hard disks serial number to BBBB-BBBB! (They had, of course, already gotten an unlock code for that HDD number). How incredibly lame! One month and this is all they achieve!! And they call themselves crackers? They are thieves, thieves and nothing but thieves! This proves that they have neither skill nor pride. |