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Crackulous developer wants people to stop pirating his App Store piracy app

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That's not the real Crackulous developer. Crackulous is free and open source. This message is from their forums:

The quick and dirty: Crackulous was developed right here on our forum, on our SVN server. Anyone selling Crackulous or claiming to be the developer is trying to scam you. The official Cydia repository to get Crackulous is http://cydia.hackulo.us. Crackulous is and will always be FREE SOFTWARE. It has had NO OTHER developers but SaladFork and Angel, with contributions from Uncon

http://hackulo.us/forums/index.php?showtopic=12570

Yep. This story is inaccurate. Some loser bought the domain crackulous.net and is trying to get bloggers to link to it instead so that he can try to sell the app. And by the way, check out that site for a good laugh. I love this part:

A screen will pop up saying that Crackulous is free and if you didn't get it free demand a refund but that screen was just a screen I added when I was deciding if I would put Crackulous up for free or not. It is a glitch and will be removed in my next update. I had to charge $10 because the economy is bad right now and I lost my job.

The main site (http://cydia.hackulo.us) is a scam too. It says: "Please wait as cydia loads!" and then "Not loading? Get help at http://hackulo.us!". But of course it'll never load: it's a static page without javascript or a meta refresh tag!

http://cydia.hackulo.us is not a site, it is a repository for the iPhone's package management system (Cydia). The site it links (http://hackulo.us/) has a redirect to http://hackulo.us/forums/.

I'm kind of annoyed that Gizmodo took the link down. It's just a Google away, but still, it would be a nice token effort to stand up to the hypocrisy.

Ha! This is honestly going into a comedy I'm writing about startups. This is Arrested-Development-level hypocrisy.

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