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[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 40 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

I used to write and sell shareware circa 2000. I got annoyed at cracked versions of my software showing up without fail a day or two after I released stuff, so one time I wrote and released an app named "Magic Text Box" which was nothing but a form with a big text box on it. It didn't do anything at all and it didn't even have any kind of protection on it. Two days later somebody released a cracked version of it. To this day I still do not understand how that person had nothing better to do.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 10 hours ago

When someone releases a “crack” of software that doesn’t need a crack, it’s normally just injected with malware to catch the script kiddies.

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 12 points 10 hours ago

We were all having fun back then.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

I am tempted to find that thing but sadly google is not that accurate anymore.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I can't even find my own real apps, let alone Magic Text Box.

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 2 points 3 hours ago

just write em again, because magic txt box sounds fun!