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jasondoty

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jasondoty··on Future Music magazine is closing after 32 years
Yes, by R2R
jasondoty··on Breaking SecuROM 7 – A Dissection
Bulgarian cracker Voksi, also alleged to be the man behind Empress, made a video for V4 https://youtu.be/suABtb8_2Zk
jasondoty··on I cut GTA Online loading times by 70% (2021)
Definitely IDA Pro.

It is an interesting case in piracy, as being the go-to software for reverse engineers, it also has the biggest target on its back for software crackers. Despite this, newer versions are not always cracked and released publicly so quickly. It seems each license owner gets their own custom watermarked build of the software. The crack of version 7.7 was leaked from Think-Cell, the excel add-ons company. 8.3 was recently seen released, with an anonymous supplier and Vietnamese cracking group behind it.

jasondoty··on Razor 1911
Anyone have inside stories to share on more modern software cracking in Scene/P2P?
jasondoty··on The Ptrace Anti-RE Trick
Tricks for windows

https://anti-debug.checkpoint.com

jasondoty··on Breaking copy protection on a 1983 game for Apple 2
Does anyone have inside stories to share on more modern software cracking in Scene/P2P?
jasondoty··on MythTV 33 Released – open-source all-in-one DVR
No, tor can’t handle bandwidth of movie streaming.
jasondoty··on MythTV 33 Released – open-source all-in-one DVR
I use this service as well for other things, but not what I was referring to, it barely fits the description.
jasondoty··on MythTV 33 Released – open-source all-in-one DVR
Private services like this exist. For $40 a year one lets me stream any show/movie on apps across all platforms including android tv. Seamless netflix-like sync across devices, family profiles, selectable video/audio quality up to 4k, etc
jasondoty··on Bespoke Synth 1.0 – open-source software modular synthesizer
If you're not going to make money off it, my opinion is you can use cracked VSTs without any concerns of "is it right".

In fact, as with a lot of pirated soft/media the experience is superior. Licensing and DRM of music software is a headache - dongles, software centers and other bloat. Scene groups like R2R even optimize performance and patch out bugs in addition to cracking protections, making their releases superior than that of the original developers.

Otherwise have a look at Splice rent-to-own plugin licensing.

jasondoty··on History of Techno
The descriptions are salty at every genre that is even somewhat popular. God forbid people actually enjoying the music without being under influence of several drugs
jasondoty··on Show HN: Vellum – An interactive list of nonfiction books reviewed by academics
Just add a link to libgen and scihub :)