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Developer Demands Pirate Bay Not Remove Torrent

Posted by samzenpus on from the please-steal-this-software dept.

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.'"

6 of 203 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Can't remember who said it first by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    and the vast vast vast vast vast majority of anyone who makes a living from creating software or books or music or games would rather people did NOT take their work without paying them, and frnakly want to see the low lfie criminal fuckbags who run thepiratebay shot in the head.
    Trust slashpirate to only ever bother reporting the one in a billion stupid hippies who doesn't object to it.
    balanced reporting? Ha, this place is like fox news, for bitter angry hippy thieves.

  2. Re:Can't remember who said it first by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Maybe you'd be more popular if you'd take your ugly mug off of your last.fm page and then you'd only have to learn how to make up a track that didn't sound like someone from a Kraftwerk-wannabe band in a drunken stupor being forced to play a 20 dollar keyboard from Walmart.

    In other words: Your music sucks and you're ugly.

  3. Re:Hats off by BobMcD · · Score: 0, Troll

    And as anyone aware of TPB and what it does, I'll wager you've acquired content from it, as well.

  4. Re:Can't remember who said it first by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Hey look guys! It's Pojut, trolling for hits to one of his online services again. If its not his crappy blog its his last.fm page.

    You aren't anyone unless your stuff is available in a torrent.

    I guess you aren't anyone then?

  5. Re:Hats off by bluefoxlucid · · Score: 0, Troll

    Even better, don't install any Microshack Offass. Instal Broken Offit dot Orgy instead.

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  6. Re:Translation by GNUALMAFUERTE · · Score: -1, Troll

    How do you say soap in yiddish? What about oven?

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