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That Will Teach You to Pirate

February 26, 2007 by in Apple,Privacy with 10 Comments

A Program called “Display Eater” will eat your “Home” directory if you enter an illegal serial number

A make of Mac software has uncovered a “scary” anti-piracy measure in a bit of code called Display Eater.
Display Eater records motion video on your screen which you can then convert to a quicktime movie.

However writing in his bog here, Karsten Kusche, who works for another Apple software maker Briksoftware, says that if you try to use a pirated serial number with Display Eater, the software will delete your home file, which in Mac land is the same as killing your computer.

Although I don’t condone stealing software, deleting someone’s home directory because they pirated seems a bit extreme and possibly illegal.

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  • Masta’ B

    apparently it’s just a scare tactic…

    http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37840

  • R031E5

    Damn, that should be illegal, I’ve heard that the app’s source had been opened because of the multiple complains.

    Digg it!

  • mark h

    I remember Wolfenstein (and probably other early id games) used to make this threat when you’d load and quit.

  • http://www.clunkclunk.com ClunkClunk

    Even if it were just a scare tactic, it’s a good way to be sure no one ever buys your software again.

  • Tom

    It’s way extreme, and most definitely illegal.

  • http://www.ithinkheblogs.com Patrick Algrim

    extremely extreme… jesus

  • robert paulson

    That’s why its called Briksoftware.. because it bricks your computer.

  • Hitsuji

    hmm, and what about if you misread your serial number and typed in an “illegal” serial number by accident???….

    It could happen

  • Karolyn

    Software with those kind of threats does not get bought by people with brains. End.

  • http://www.schildkroeter.de Jon

    Huh? Display Eater is freeware… http://reversecode.com/

    I don’t get it.

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