#ihackedit

People who write software spend time and money to create something expecting a financial reward. When people get cracked software and pay nothing to the authors, they are “robbing” someone and committing a crime punishable by law

I do not know the work that you do, however you can do this thought experiment, at the end of the week the employer does not give you a paycheck and pockets any profits. How happy are you to see the employer pocket your earnings?

There are some risks for those who obtain cracked software, besides criminal risks. The people who cracked the software spend time and money to do this and expect some financial reward too, sometimes they are ‘honest crooks” they charge some fees to obtain the software that they cracked. When they give it for free, how do they make money? They are not altruists who want you to enjoy software that you do not want to spend money to buy. What they do is to install malware in their products (cracked software) To whom are you going to complain if you get ripped off? Do you call the police to say “I purchased cracked software and I got ripped off” ?

Since nothing is perfect the cracked software might have defects. Can you call the vendor of the cracked software for support or are you going to call the legitimate creators of the software to obtain support on the cracked software?

I understand the desire for cracked software. Some of it is very expensive. Generally it is not expensive because the authors are greedy. It is expensive because it takes many people a long time to write.

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