From: RobertB 

In article ,
 "Rich Gauszka"  wrote:

> I wonder if someone from the wga team has seen this and thought - GREAT
> IDEA!!!!!
>
> If Ballmer purchases 'reverscode'  (http://www.reversecode.com/  ) beware
> the next wga update 
>
> http://geekpatrol.ca/2007/02/display-eater-eats-more-than-just-displays/
>
>
> Display Eater Eats More Than Just Displays
>
> Well, this is interesting. It turns out that Display Eater, a screen-capture
> application for Mac OS X will delete your home folder if it thinks you're
> running it with a pirated serial number. How's that for a draconian
> anti-piracy policy? [Karsten Kusche over at briksoftware] also thinks it'll
> generate some of the worst PR possible:
>
>     Removing the home folder of some users will probably do way more
> advertisement. But that kind of advertisement is not good. This blog post is
> such a kind of negative advertisement. I definitely do not support such
> software and I suggest you should not use Display Eater. If you need a tool
> to create screen-casts go for iShowU. It's just 3$ more expensive than
> Display Eater but seems to have a much better user experience.
>
> Of course, Display Eater's developer thinks his approach is perfectly
> reasonable, and has threatened to take his toys and go home if people don't
> stop pirating his application:
>
>
> http://www.versiontracker.com/php/feedback/article.php?story=2007020712461478
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>
> Feedback Type: Developer Note
> Contributed by: 02-07-07 12:46PM
>
>
>
> Product Platform: MacOSX
> Used Product For: Over One Year
> Recommend Product: YES
>
>
> You "checked" to see what piracy protection I was using,
right. Why dont you
> just admit that you PIRATED it?
>
> For the rest of you nice people. I'll try to be as clear as I can. There
> exist several illegal cd-keys that you can use to unlock the demo program.
> If Display Eater detects that you are using these, it will erase something.
>
> I don't know if this is going to become Display Eater policy. If this level
> of piracy continues, development will stop.
>
> -Reza

There's gotta be something illegal in this, aside from the bad PR and
generally bad Karma of erasing a user's *Home* folder, which has their
critical documents on it. More like vendettaware!

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