As part of a project development I have bought Steinberg Wavelab and Cubase. Lurking on forums I was surprised to find out that the last cracked version of Cubase dated 2008.

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As part of a project development I have bought Steinberg Wavelab and Cubase. Lurking on forums I was surprised to find out that the last cracked version of Cubase dated 2008.
I wonder how sound company manages to keep crackers at bay, and why Embarcadero cannot.

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  1. Richard BaroniunasFebruary 5, 2018 at 7:45 AM

    Software privacy always starts at the person who deems it worthwhile to violate the law for a cheap cost. Just go on to ebay and you can find numerous Visual Studio cracked licenses for sale.

    If you are a software developer and sell software for a living then it is up to you to make sure folks in your company as well as yourself do not purchase it.

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  2. David NottageFebruary 5, 2018 at 11:43 AM

    You might want to compare the size and visibility of one against the other, and that one makes the actual development tool, as opposed to just a library, i.e way more different motivation

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  3. David SchwartzFebruary 5, 2018 at 11:54 AM

    Doesn't WaveLab require a dongle to activate it? A lot of audio vendors require a hardware interface to enable parts of their software. With enough code probes with randomly delayed checks scattered throughout the code, it could discourage people from using supposedly cracked software because it would be extremely challenging to find all of the cracks without running the software 24/7 for weeks or months. You can't stop crackers, but you can bury enough time-bombs in the code that nobody will want to use unregistered versions.

    What really sucks about this is there are sites that seem to sell supposedly "cracked" software for a one-time fee, like $40, and the site is filled with stuff that's not even protected. I found one of my software products on such a site -- it wasn't protected, and the regular price was actually less than $40!

    I can only imagine the spyware these guys are embedding in the supposedly "cracked" versions they're selling.

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