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.'"

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Translation

[eldavojohn]

Developer Demands Pirate Bay Not Remove Torrent

Translation:

Developer Demonstrates Cutting Edge Advertising Techniques

Re:Translation

[Anonymous Coward]

Probably right, but now I want to buy it just to support that kind of chutzpah (or however you spell that word).

Re:Can't remember who said it first

[Anonymous Coward]

(remember, Metallica got big because people traded bootleg concert tapes)

What's a tape?

Re:Can't remember who said it first

[StikyPad]

I also noticed that he wasn't on Shaboogie, Underbeats, Padoodle, Pocketgravy, Wikiloafer, Rumpelstiltstunes, first.am, BassPirates, or even DrumSmugglers.