From: "Robert Comer" 

>vendettaware!

That's a very good name for it.

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Bob Comer


"RobertB"  wrote in message
news:missinglink-0A6A68.14400324022007{at}news.barkto.com...
> 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=200702071246147
86
>>
>> 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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