16 Jun
2010
16 Jun
'10
3:43 p.m.
--- On Wed, 6/16/10, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
Highly
amusing and in some small way "legitimised"
the cracking
system.
While working in an EMI lab in the late 80s, I was told by a guy that the crackers
provided the copy protection schemes (for machines like the C64), and *waited* to release
these tools to the public. Don't ask me, this is what I was told. And in fact down at
the calibration lab there was a file cabinet fool of the tools needed to make copies of
otherwise copy protected stuff (mostly games). They had loads and loads of Commie s/w.
Stuff probably garnered from bbs' and whatnot. Even some crazy stuff from abroad (no
not *a* broad LOL LOL). Stuff I know I wouldn't and didn't see anywhere else.