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Re:I Can Crack Your App With Just A Shell (And How To Stop Me) by mike-cardwell on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @05:05AM (#2115298)
If lots of games used similar methodologies then people would slowly learn that "pirated game" == "buggy game". Wouldn't work unless lots of them did the same thing of course.
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Re:I Can Crack Your App With Just A Shell (And How To Stop Me) by steveklabnik on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @08:26AM (#2115667)
No, they don't have anything to compare it with. They'd never figure out that it's because stuff is pirated.
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Re:I Can Crack Your App With Just A Shell (And How To Stop Me) by phillco on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @09:49AM (#2115947)
Exactly. It's even worse if you add the crippling behavior later on, i.e. in the upgrade from v1.2 to v1.3. All pirates notice is that the new version is really unstable.
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