[OT] The Cracker's Guide To Python

[bobb]

Sounds good to me.

bobb

"Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou" <tzot at sil-tec.gr> wrote in message
news:04g770lqpbhdgr3n3b9mnu9o8f08fdkgk0 at 4ax.com...
> Dear all,
>
> yesterday afternoon I happened to be in the company of youngsters, and I
> overheard them talking about the whereabouts of the crack of the latest
> version of some famous video editing software... instead of preaching
> about legalities at first etc, I asked:
>
> "What exactly do you need this software for?"
>
> "I have two avi files and I want to join them..."
>
> "Why don't you download VirtualDub and do your job then?  Google for it,
> it's open source and you can download it freely."
>
> "So I don't need a crack for it?"
>
> ... (!)
>
> I'm skipping the rest of the conversation, but the idea of lots of
> youngsters around the world, brilliant and talented perhaps, that waste
> their time in illegal activities instead of investing it into open
> source software struck me as very depressing.
>
> So jokingly, how do we advertise python in that "underground" world?
> Easy: let's provide a crack for every version of python for windows! :)
> It doesn't matter what it does, perhaps only change the copyright
> message into "H4x0r3d by Guid0 T34m" by changing directly the
> pythonxx.dll.  The only problem would be that if the crack is written in
> Python, it won't be able to open the dll as read-write...
>
> It's a crazy world...
> --
> TZOTZIOY, I speak England very best,
> Ils sont fous ces Redmontains! --Harddix