Reflection of software cracking

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Commercial software has to be paid by the user, who wants to use it on his computer. As usually it is possible to copy software from disc to disc or in another way, the user has the possibility not to pay for the software he uses but just to copy it from a special source. To prevent this behavoir software companies started to introduce copy protections during the 80ies.

Crackers are persons, who are disabling these copy protection mechanism in an illegal way to make commercial software copy-able again. In this way users are again able to get commercial software for free. As commercial software houses have a lot of costs and have to pay their programmers the sallary, they are not very happy about these crackers, as they are loosing money with them.

Pro crackers

• Crackers are like modern "Robin Hoods": They steal from the bad rich capitalistic companies the money and distribute it to the good poor people.
• People, who are using cracked software, don't have the money to buy commercial software in any case - so it doesn't matter at all.
• As software is spreaded more widely, if it has been cracked, it becomes much more popular. This is also an advantage for the software company.

Contra crackers

• Software companies have a lot of costs, their work is not for free. If people are using cracked software, the company are loosing money and can't keep the amount of employees and the level of quality.
• Why should some people pay money for software while other people are getting it for free? At the end it means, that a few customers are paying, so that other illegal guys can use things for free.
• In any way according to the law using "stolen" software is as illegal as using stolen material productions.

Consequences of software cracks for the CPC

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