Future of software protection

You can spend massive amounts of money on packers and protectors and watch your software being posted on topsites/news/torents/RS in no time, or you can go with more creative approach...

Maybe you heard of 'Cute CD DVD Burner', small shareware burning solution which cost 29.99 (speaking of current version v5.3 ATM). Well if you want to try it, you will probably download it 1st and then you will search for keygen or crack of some sort. Hmm, on most warez sources you will not find cracks for version higher than 3.5.

If you are not tech savvy enough to crack it by yourself, you should try to get some help from scene guys (by visiting their forums or IRCs)

Anyway, whatever you decided there is good chance to meet unique protection scheme of this program :)

After you unwrap it from ASPack and load it into debugger you can view hidden message:

Or, if you want to copy it around:

0058B2DC . 48 65 6C 6C 6F>ASCII "Hello Cracker,My"
0058B2EC . 20 6E 61 6D 65>ASCII " name is Kendy, "
0058B2FC . 74 68 65 20 61>ASCII "the author of Cu"
0058B30C . 74 65 20 43 44>ASCII "te CD DVD Burner"
0058B31C . 2E 46 69 72 73>ASCII ".Firstly, I am p"
0058B32C . 72 6F 75 64 20>ASCII "roud of that you"
0058B33C . 20 77 61 6E 6E>ASCII " wanna crack my "
0058B34C . 73 6F 66 74 77>ASCII "software for its"
0058B35C . 20 6C 69 74 74>ASCII " little value. B"
0058B36C . 75 74 2C 70 6C>ASCII "ut,please do me "
0058B37C . 61 20 66 61 76>ASCII "a favor not to c"
0058B38C . 72 61 63 6B 20>ASCII "rack it. Thank y"
0058B39C . 6F 75 20 76 65>ASCII "ou very much! Ev"
0058B3AC . 65 6E 20 6D 6F>ASCII "en more, I limit"
0058B3BC . 65 64 20 73 6F>ASCII "ed some function"
0058B3CC . 73 20 6F 66 20>ASCII "s of the program"
0058B3DC . 20 66 6F 72 20>ASCII " for example "On"
0058B3EC . 65 20 44 72 69>ASCII "e Driver Copy". "
0058B3FC . 49 20 64 69 64>ASCII "I did not enter "
0058B40C . 41 4E 59 20 43>ASCII "ANY CODE with th"
0058B41C . 69 73 20 66 75>ASCII "is function when"
0058B42C . 20 49 20 64 65>ASCII " I develop this "
0058B43C . 73 6F 66 74 77>ASCII "software, so act"
0058B44C . 75 61 6C 6C 79>ASCII "ually,the functi"
0058B45C . 6F 6E 20 69 73>ASCII "on is not availa"
0058B46C . 62 6C 65 20 72>ASCII "ble root and bra"
0058B47C . 6E 63 68 2E 20>ASCII "nch. At last,I b"
0058B48C . 65 67 20 79 6F>ASCII "eg you not to cr"
0058B49C . 61 63 6B 20 6D>ASCII "ack my software,"
0058B4AC . 20 70 6C 65 61>ASCII " please! Thank y"
0058B4BC . 6F 75 21 00 __>ASCII "ou!",0

Also, if you search forums a bit you can find topics like this

As guy there said: 'Respect to developers'

Regards

O Fortuna...

Carmina Burana - O Fortuna

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
O Fortuna
velut luna
statu variabilis,
semper crescis
aut decrescis;
vita detestabilis
nunc obdurat
et tunc curat
ludo mentis aciem,
egestatem,
potestatem
dissolvit ut glaciem.

Sors immanis
et inanis,
rota tu volubilis,
status malus,
vana salus
semper dissolubilis,
obumbrata
et velata
michi quoque niteris;
nunc per ludum
dorsum nudum
fero tui sceleris.

Sors salutis
et virtutis
michi nunc contraria,
est affectus
et defectus
semper in angaria.
Hac in hora
sine mora
corde pulsum tangite;
quod per sortem
sternit fortem,
mecum omnes plangite!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


For all of you who want to have this masterpiece in personal collection:

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Rapidshare.com link, 93MB
rar password : deepmoon
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Performed by:

SHEILA ARMSTRONG (Soprano)
BRIAN RAYNER COOK (Baritone)
PETER HALL (Tenor)
HALLÉ CHOIR (Chorus Master: Ronald Frost)
BOYS OF THE MANCHESTER GRAMMAR SCHOOL (Chorus Master: Michael Ball)
HALLÉ ORCHESTRA conducted by MAURICE HANDFORD

Enjoy

KMPlayer, most versatile video player

00:30AM, march 1st 2008 BSPlayer v2.26 activated time bomb protection (annoying nag-screen) forcing users to download new version from official site. After one close modal message box, player shut down...

This was preposterous. Why anyone would use software whose vendors treat customers like that?

• Bottom line: Patched version of BSPlayer v2.26 became accessible to public in 01:14AM, just 44min after time bomb activation [Warez - BB] :) gg BSPlayer

Anyway, after this episode, I decided to find another video player...
After few hours spent in searching i found: KMPlayer :)

This was a bullseye:

• Freeware
• Standalone [in fact, you can choose]
• Internal codec-base
• Possibility for fine tuning [literally thousands of options available - its settings file is 60~100kb, compared to ~10kb BSPlayer's]
• Total filter-chain control
• Advanced draw-surface control
• Powerful post-processing
• Low resource usage
• Easy keyboard/remote control [custom defined shortcuts along with corresponding values]
• Superior subtitle support [C/L model]
• Helpful and active community

Official description:

The KMPlayer is a versatile media player which can cover various types of container format such as VCD, DVD, AVI, MKV, Ogg Theora, OGM, 3GP, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV, RealMedia, and QuickTime among others. It handles a wide range of subtitles and allows you to capture audio, video, and screenshots in many ways.

The player provides both internal and external filters with a fully controlled environment in terms of connections to other splitters, decoders, audio/video transform filters and renderers without grappling with the DirectShow merit system. Internal filters are not registered to user's system to keep it from being messed up with system filters.

The KMPlayer includes almost all the essential decoders required for media playback. Furthermore, to get beyond the limitation of internal decoders, the external ones such as commercial h.264 decoders or cyberlink/intervideo audio decoders can be specified, so that KMP works optimally by the users' own customization. Even though the KMP is based upon directshow structure, it supports Winamp, Realmedia and Quicktime by the internal logic. Thus, it is possible to specify where to try to connect firstly the media in preferences.

In short, the player provides a strong hybrid structure efficient for interconnecting various directshow filters, winamp input&dsp plugin, and internal filters. The most outstanding feature is that the player has the full control of filter connections to prevent a media playback from being messed.

The player can set multifarious audio and video effects, slow down or increase playback speed with regular tone, select parts of a video as favorites, do an exceptionally powerful A-B repeat, remap the keys of remote interface for HTPC including overlay screen controls, change a skin dynamically depending on a media type playing, and many more. It is completely customizable thanks to a wide selection of skins and color schemes, and the configuration options are extremely extensive.

Just for the record, I spent almost 7hr adjusting all settings of this player. In case that anyone needs them, I uploaded my settings files here

I suggest this great software to anyone who is tired of chasing latest codec packs/players etc...
This player just works out the box without registering a single splitter/codec on your system.

P.S. I forgot the link: Official project forum

Regards

ImgBurn, great burning solution

I discovered this amazing one-man (yes, LightningUK! is the only one developer) project few weeks ago.

Since then, I am using it on daily basis. During this time I successfully burnt over 100 DVD discs with various contents without any notable issue.

Another advantage is program size: 1.5MB standalone .exe (with simple .ini file) is only requirements for high-quality burning! Compare this to almost-operating-system Nero suite...


ImgBurn's main features:

• ImgBurn supports a wide range of image file formats - including BIN, CUE, DI, DVD, GI, IMG, ISO, MDS, NRG and PDI.
• It supports Unicode folder/file names, so you shouldn't run in to any problems if you're using an international character set.
• ImgBurn supports all the Windows OS's - Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista and 2008 (including all the 64-bit versions). If you use Wine, it should also run on Linux and other x86-based Unixes.
• There is an image queue system for when you're burning several images (which you can automatically share between multiple drives if you have more than one) and an easy-to-use layer break selection screen for double layer DVD Video jobs.
  
• The Automatic Write Speed feature allows you store your favorite burn speed settings on a per 'Media ID' basis, right down to a drive by drive level.
  
• Whilst ImgBurn is designed to work perfectly straight out of the box, advanced users will appreciate just how configurable it is.
• Oh and let's not forget the best thing about it.... it's 100% FREE ;-)

Also, large and active community behind this project ensures almost instant answers on any your questions, many times by developer himself.

• ImgBurn Forum

Main (and only?) drawback of this great tool is lack of image file system editor and convenient file browser, but I expect some improvements in this way in later builds.

Anyway, I suggest to everyone to try this program :)

• ImgBurn Website

Regards

I am back :)

Well, after long vacation, here I am.

/logout
/console quit

Yes mates, I left WoW for good. In fact, my last login was in mid December.

Still, this was a wonderful experience...
I have met many good people there and learned valuable lessons (MMO related at last) :)

Anyway, life goes on.

Facebook

Now i just click around like before, and guess what; I joined Facebook :)

Take a look: My Profile

Mare

Petkowsky has been scammed

Alas, what painful day in Petkowsky's life.

He was robbed in tender level of 38 on most cruelly way...

Just look at their grief condensed in this topic on official realm forum of Nordrassil

Hunterofdead - false enchanter

Best regards mates

Mare proudly presents...

...amazing Petkowsky, 29 twink rogue starring in episode called "Unbelievable ally WSG win".

As you can see, i was playing WOW these days like a real no-lifer...
I played mainly PVP battlegrounds spiced with casual chat with my old friends from "The Lords Of Cobol" and "Death Kitty" while waiting in queue (/tickle guys).


This is Petkowsky in front of Ironforge gates smiling shyly :p

But, when Petkowsky enter in WSG or AV, any horde have only one choice - to release they spirit now or through 6 min. :)))
Today he 3-shooted ud mage twink in WSG - ambush crit 598 + [Thistle Tea] + backstab crit 463 + white crit 144 [+ Deadly Poison II proc] ==>> GG - HK First Sergeant :))


WSG score

You can see that Petkowsky was 1st in Killing Blows, 1st in Honorable Kills and 2nd in Damage Done. Like Borat says "Great Success" :))

...damn, this game is so addictive...

Best regards mates