Crack 4 Renoise!

i found this searching for renoise @ google! :angry:

[http://************/serials/view.ph…p?dir=R&page=11](http:// ************* /serials/view.php?dir=R&page=11)

pulsar: removed the link due legal reasons.

The resulting file is download.exe ? More like virus.exe !

I’m glad I run OS X…

Warning: Don’t view those pages unless you are confident of your firewall and anti-virus program.

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Thats good crack :)

lol. glad i didnt dl it :P

I’ll try to run it on WINE :P

woah, virii-alert all over the place. go kiddies, get those cracks.

At first i got the “download.exe” (which i ignore because that’s always the dialer they offer you first, always wait for a minute till all pop-ups have gone up, there will be one with the right file-offer) then the meta refresh offered me Mzs5E880x2.zip, which contains three files:file_id.diz (usual), an executable patcher (my Norton AV did not gave any alarms) and an nfo file.

I guess the patch removes the time-limit for the beta.
But which one? The registered edition or the Demo edition?
And does it remove the ASIO and render to wav limitation?
I doubt you gain any extra features with this patch, but i don’t have the Beta 3 demo to test this patch on.

Here are the contents of the nfo.

  
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Yeah, but… I mean, what’s the point of these cracks, really? A crack with unknown effect for a version of Renoise not available anywhere…? The only real crack we should be worried about is when Renoise is out of the RC-cycle, and somebody sends out a registered .exe with altered info…

:panic: :panic: :panic: :panic: :panic: :panic:

Noooooo!

I registered few days ago to support The Scene and now other people are trying to ruin it again!
No way, If I find one of these people, I will do some kind of crack too :angry:

The only way to get your software crack-proof is to completely drown it into security check algorithms and match existing keys online.

But this requires a user to have a full internet connection and you actually use some kind of cd-key authentication (Like online games have).

Another variant is excluding parts of the software in a DLL which is encrypted and can only be decrypted with user authentication data.

If the data is not right, the registered options will not operate.
It is harder to crack since it requires user data and it makes it rather easier to spread the whole thing along with the user data around than try to crack the encryption method.
And as noticed before with the current system:it is easier to trace the original user who is the first source.

You won’t prevent crackers trying to crack it, you won’t win anything by battling them either. I assume that 45 or 60 bucks is something most can spend and those who can’t, probably won’t be worth the effort to file a lawsuit against them either.

Besides, if your software get’s cracked, it’s not only a first warning of the potential vulnerabilities, it’s also a sign that it get’s popular and cause some kind of strange marketing effect that may work in the benefits of the developers anyway.

There’s the nasty dongle method… :panic: YIPES!

Yep, dongles can be cracked, but it forces the user to 1. Restart the computer 1-4 times and replacing system32 files to fully install the crack. 2. Have a program running in the background, usually all the time, in order to pass by the dongle detection software, unless the user wants to run a program first before they load the dongle-requiring software.

Dongles are an ugly method, it’s probably very costly to produce, and if people don’t have that port free for the device, it would probably turn a lot of users away. :( But it is a method…

Edit–addition: I should say though, would it be worth the major pain that it is for hackers to make a dongle crack when the renoise costs so little? With high-priced studio recording software–the high price gives them an incentive to make the dongle crack.

I wouldn’t worry too much about this “Crack for 1.5 beta 3”, it seems to only be something that takes the “time limitation” thing ou of a version that has bugs. Unregistered users have to have the actual registered version to render .wav files (?)

I think Renoise has enough security because they are aware of the cracking scene. In fact, I think most crackers don’t crack Renoise out of respect. Second it’s not a big $400 prize like Reason.

Cracking is an older relative to our scene and I’m sure we’ve all done it. (I read the book ‘Demoscene: The art of real time’ last week. ) People used to make Cracktro’s, and eventually the demo scene split. But the most famous free amiga ‘soundtracking’ programs were hacks of others. I’m not sure which ones NoiseTracker, ProTracker, D.O.C Soundtracker…ect

FT2 was shareware, but most people didn’t even think to pay. It just isn’t our way of thinking on this scene. In fact, Renoise is the only software I ever payed for! (and I’m a professional who does use software for commercial use.)

Your IP has been identified… BSA is on the way… :)

Actually i like to try out software myself, to see if i will actually like it and how useful it will actually be to me… before idecide to bye it, that goes especially for expensive soft. (i don’t use it commercially though, maybe some day i will be so lucky to make money with my music :) but that is not the case right now )

Renoise price on the other hand is so acceptable that i didn’t hesitate registering it…

I don’t do professional music. My renoise skills need to impove. But my work bought me adobe and macromedia packages. :rolleyes:

What pisses ME off is VSTi pluggins that cost as much as Renoise (like microtonic)… :angry:
I might just end up buying it anyway. :drummer:

Try a search on dc++, found atleast 60 people sharing renoise, tho only one sharing v1.5. Its not hard finding a cracked version of renoise, its just not an option for me atleast. I want easy updates, reasons to complain and ability to interfere :P

I bought Microtonic and I thought it was worth the money. It’s efficient on the cpu, it sounds really great, and Magnus (the developer) replied to my emails/questions very quickly and gave very helpful answers. He was also pretty quick to provide an updated version which fixed weird, hard-to-find problems only a handful of people were having (including Renoise users like myself).

For me, it was worth it, and the price didn’t feel too much. I really wish more developers made things in a similar price range. I like to support the people making great software that I use a lot, but unfortunately some of the stuff is so ridiculously expensive. It’s difficult to justify spending that much on something which will probably always remain a hobby for me.

i think the best way to curb ppl from not buying renoise
and using cracked versions

would be to always keep it in a developmental state

for instance:
when we are using 1.5 stable,
the demo would still be rc1

the best way to stop crackers, is to provide a good product at an affordable price for your target market. i think renoise is a perfect example! all these cracks really do is give people a chance to realise that renoise is WORTH paying for. thats what i did. and, if they dont pay for it, they probably wouldnt have anyway so youre not losing anyone… just gaining a few :)

Microsoft could decide to stop supporting all of their operating systems for free. Microsoft could decide at any moment, if they chose, to annouce that they are closing down.

$45 is too much?

I could see what you’re saying, maybe, if we were talking about one of those stupid made-in-97-but-they-still-charge-$30 screensavers and “make windows fluffy” programs that cost $60. I could see it if you were talking about Steinberg products–$500-$1500? Come on now, that’s outrageous. (Everyone I know who uses steinberg produtcs would actually buy those steinberg products if they came under the $250 range) I could see it if it was $40 for a competing tracker which I’ll leave unnamed but promises for seven years that the new version will be avaialable at the end of the year and charges their customers for dot releases–but $45 for Renoise, a tool that does THIS much, offers THIS much support, gets updated THIS much, and offers alphas to paying customers–come on now, that’s outrageous to claim it costs too much! Be happy the demo lets you save files.

You want free software, go the open source route, and learn to compile everything to your system and have both versions of libsigc and that other library that changed syntax so you don’t have to rewrite the source of 9/10 of the programs you download to be able to install them on your system.

Renoise developers, when they’re not working and trying to have a life, are spending their freetime not relaxing, but working on this program and paying bills for the bandwidth, the domain name, and the webspace, and they’re giving as much customer support as what is humanly possible without going insane.

Steinberg and Microsoft developers are getting big fat checks for working on their software–we as users of renoise can at least help Renoise developers by helping them pay their essential bills. I’m hoping this year I’ll have some spending money again so I can buy a couple more copies of renoise.