Ever downloaded warez/cracks: Yes or No? [Anonymous Poll]

Did you ever use Warez/Serialz/Crackz?

  • Yes

    Votes: 65 69.9%

  • No

    Votes: 19 20.4%

  • On planet X, we are cowards. :p

    Votes: 9 9.7%
  • Total voters
    93

Oliver

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When I couldn't afford it in my earlier years, I used to download a lot of stuff to test it without any commercial interest. Did you crack a program or did you download warez in the past to check out the software - and did you buy it as well once it was worth the price-tag?
 
I had a coworker that would gleefully crack new games just for the fun of it. He would give me copies sometimes, but any game that I was actually interested in I would buy myself. Sometimes very old games are impossible to find except in hacked forml. I will also find cracked games on occasion even though I own the game because I am too lazy to swap out CD's.
 
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I will also find cracked games on occasion even though I own the game because I am too lazy to swap out CD's.
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One of the many cases where the cracked copy offers more functionality than the original.
 
I'm one of those people who refuse to have useless plastic coasters in the drive and keep swapping out the damn things when I want to play a different game.

I love steam, especially if I have to install a game on a different computer.

The activation stuff is tolerable; it's fine when it works. I had a broken DVD once, it would read slower and slower to try to compensate but eventually stall before completing the install; not only was I going to have to pester them for a new DVD, I was going to have to call their call center and explain why you've installed/activated it 3+ times or whatever. I just warezed it instead; much more convenient.
 
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It is a personal choice, there are reasons to crack.

But be aware. Keep it clean and do not use your main machine. Use one you do not care about, that you do not care to use for commerce.
 
I'll buy something if i like it...after i tried it...'cos i want the updates and stuff...things you can't 99.9% get, with a cracked version...

Especially on my pro vid and photo editing software...

DB
 
Yup, first time it was to be able to play a game I had bought, but whose DRM was so strong I couldn't use my legal copy.

These last few years I've stopped pirating; now I only play console games and stuff I get from gamersgate or steam.
 
I did with the Sims. Then turned around and ended up buying the entire series.

Sims 2, I was given a cracked copy, but again ended up buying the entire series.

I generally use them to try a game out before the price comes down to where I am comfortable paying for it.

I also used to use a cracked copy of Office, a cracked copy of Nortons (isn't that just wrong? And it worked without a valid subscription for four years!), and some other software. In all cases, I've either bought the actual programs since then, or started using freeware instead (for example, using AVG or Avast! instead of Nortons).

And I've had a fair share of trojans to battle... :D
 
No. Anything I need to use I can find for free without relying on someone else to be honest with their cracks. Unscrupulous folks can put all sorts of nasties on programs. I get the academic version of software, or use the free version of expensive software (GIMP for photoshop, Inkscape for Illustrator, OpenOffice for MS Office, etc.)
 
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For what I need? Great, but I only use about 10% of the functionality on those types of programs.
 
When I was 14, in the early 90s, I downloaded a "warez". It was called "Win Nuke". I think I used it once, maybe, I forget. Back when chatrooms were HTML and for some odd reason displayed everybody's IP address in front of each of their posts.
 
My family's first pc was a win. 95 and my uncle Jim made us a floppy that would load DOOM II if we rebooted it with the disk in. That count?
 
A few years ago (well, quite a number of year ago but who's counting) I bought a few games after having tried some incredible demos, only to have the actual game suck donkey ... spherical objects. After that I must admit to have done the dl, test, buy if good thingy.

Now adays I have usally little time to spend on games, so the I get games from the companies that never seems to let me down, and thus never needs a trial: Valve, Blizzard, Obsidian, Bioware, Firaxis...

Still, from time to time the urge to get a nocd-crack is very high, I *hate* swapping discs.
 
I do wish I had downloaded cracked versions of Master of Orion III. That game was a real disappointment - and one of the few I bought before actually playing it.

The way I see it, Quicksilver owes me money for ruining the game. People still get together and play Master of Orion II instead even though it is over a decade old.
 
Yes, i did crack two programs myself loooong ago for my work in a company, when Windows NT was just brand-new. I had to, because these friggin copy-protection dongles on the parallel port made nothing but trouble. Which is rather bad if you need to use CAD, for example, and have to use the port to actually plot your work.

However, i was legally entitled to do so. Our equivalent to the copyright-law explicitly states that to make a protected software work and usable, you are allowed to crack it, have it cracked by someone else, or grab an available crack to disable that protection.

Privately i never had to do any of that, because i use linux on my desktop together with all the free/open source software.

Greetings,

Chris
 
I don't do warez, but I'll crack anything that makes me put a cd in the drive.

I remember the switch from floppy to hard drives when we didn't have to keep switching disks anymore, and then POS publishers drag us back to the 80's because they're fighting a pointless battle against pirates.

So **** them, I've got a whole folder of no-cd cracks for my legally purchased games.
 
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