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- Yes 3DS 3.0 was cracked . There are several bad cracks running around but
- there is one that works and it came out 2 mos. after 3.0 was released.
- I hear now that there is a crack for 4.0 already.
- Although I feel sorry for the software company it mainly pisses me off
- because I paid $3000 for the damn thing why shouldn't everybody....don't
- even get me talking about "Student discounts!" Arghhhh....
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- I agree with the fingerprint scheme below but I still think it should be
- a call-in validation.
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- John Foust (syndesis@beta.inc.net) wrote:
- : In article <1994Dec21.184025.81194@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>, tomcole@falcon.cc.ukans.edu (Thomas M. Cole) says:
- : > - Hardware dongle which will be cracked
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- : Actually, the nifty $20 wholesale-cost dongles from places like Rainbow
- : Technologies haven't been cracked. Has 3D Studio been cracked? Not
- : completely, after at least four years.
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- : > - Crappily written disk copy prevention schemes which can be cracked
- : > and usually end up screwing up the original disks anyway
- : > - go to page 157 and enter the 3rd word in last paragraph which sucks
- : > and isn't effective with the advent of the photocopier
- : > - issue the new release of the software on CD ROM and require the
- : > CD ROM to be in the drive at program launch
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- : This isn't the gamut of CP schemes. My personal favorite is a program
- : that examines the amount of memory, hard drives, cards, etc. are in a
- : computer, uses that to make a "fingerprint", and uses that to determine
- : when it pesters to ask for any of the above... It might only ask for
- : a word from the manual when you change your system, which for most people
- : is "rarely."
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