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Developer Demands Pirate Bay Not Remove Torrent
An anonymous reader writes "This week TPB got a very unusual e-mail. It was a 'Notice of Ridiculous Activity' from a company that had found one of its apps cracked and listed as a torrent on TPB. The app in question is called Memoires, developed by Coding Robots. Memoires is marketed as the easiest way to keep a journal on your Mac. It costs $29.99 to buy after you've enjoyed a 30-day free trial. That, of course, didn't stop someone from cracking the software and making it available for free as a torrent. Dmitry Chestnykh, founder of Coding Robots, noticed the cracked torrent and decided to download it to see what had been done. After using it, he was upset — not because the cracked version was available, but because the cracker (named Minamoto) had done such a bad job of cracking it. The best section of the e-mail has to be this: 'I demand that you don't remove this torrent, so that people can laugh at Minamoto and CORE skills. However, I also demand the[sic] better crack to be made, so that it doesn't cripple the user experience of my beautiful program.'"
Many people (including myself, hint hint) wish that their work was popular enough to show up on torrent networks.
You aren't anyone unless your stuff is available in a torrent.
I see your music is available for download on last.fm but I couldn't find you on Jamendo. If you want exposure I highly recommend setting up an account there. As a bonus, you can also take donations if people like your music.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. - Terry Pratchett
http://www.google.ca/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=coding+robots+memoires+torrent
TPB is known to be the largest (pirated) tracker in the world. He was curious to see if his program was listed. As a software developer myself, I've done searches on popular trackers too for my software.
Compact Cassette is an analog audio storage medium that filled much the same role that MP3 and Vorbis audio files fill now. It was also used for data storage on home computers circa 1980, with various inefficient modulations, before floppy disk drives (the predecessor to USB flash drives) became affordable to home users.
Metallica appreciated trading copies of amateur concert recordings but not copies of the studio CDs.
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They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. - Terry Pratchett
I see where he's going -- the pirated version sucks so if you want the real deal you gotta come to me -- but then that's basically the old crippleware model, only letting the pirates do the crippling for you.
When you "previewed" Photoshop, you got the full experience.
But then it also has the 30-day free trial, presumably un-crippled, if you get it from him.
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TFA didn't link to the original Reddit article. The original one is here.
And that thread's comments have multiple serious discussions going on.
And the discussions rival the quality found in Slashdot.
Jamendo is CC-licensed material only. If he wishes to maintain copyright on a work, in the traditional sense, he can't put it on Jamendo.
... But still gay ~