Mac Developer To Software Pirates: If You’re Going To Steal My App, At Least Do It Right

There’s something heartwarming about a Mac software developer so dedicated to maintaining the quality of his product that, discovering a pirated version of his software on the Pirate Bay that had been shoddily cracked at the expense of the user experience, he actually told the cracker how to do it more elegantly.

That’s just what Coding Robots dev Dmitry Chestnykh did when he found a version of his journal-taking application, Mémoires, up on the popular Bittorrent search site.

Incensed at the crumminess of the crack, Chestnykh wrote the following to the Pirate Bay.

“Not only it requires installing APE plugin, and generating keyfiles using some scary tool, it contains a fucking *WINDOWS* program to verify the validity of this release. The ‘How-to’ section in the description is just incomprehensible, and won’t be understood by anyone other than the writer of the description,” Chestnykh writes.

“Clearly, the ‘cracker’ Minamoto did a lazy job and don’t know how to crack software. It’s a fucking SINGLE BOOLEAN SWITCH that validates the license, it doesn’t require any Application Enhancer tricks or whatever.”

“I demand that you don’t remove this torrent, so that people can laugh at Minimoto and CORE skills. However, I also demand the better crack be made, so that it doesn’t cripple the use experience of my beautiful program,” Chestnykh added, putting pressure on the Pirate Bay crew.

DON'T MISS
Mac Trojan Horse Found In Pirated Photoshop CS4

Now that’s dedication to both your software and your users! Not only that, but now Mémoires is getting a lot of positive publicity. I don’t know about you, but any developer this devoted to his product deserves my money.

[via TUAW]

6 comments »