Copy protection through the AppStore is essentially a joke. Since all apps have to be self contained, you don't even need to crack it, you just need a 'paid' signature from inside the package contents. Very easy to distribute. Makes me wonder why any other commercial software developers would accept the AppStore terms.
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On 29. juni 2011, at 03.38, John Kilgour wrote:
> Sadly, FCP-X is already cracked and widely available. Pretty effed up
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> On Jun 28, 2011, at 9:12 PM, Dylan Reeve wrote:
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>> When I talked to an Adobe country manager in the early 2000s he straight up
>> told me that they actually counted on piracy to some extent. He knew that
>> above all else it was important for them to be the software people knew how
>> to use and consequently demanded.
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>> I'm fairly certain that the same was true of FCP. Most people I knew when I
>> was at film school had a cracked (actually just downloaded with a serial
>> from the web, no crack necessary) copy of FCP if they had a Mac. I had a
>> cracked copy of Xpress DV for a while but it wasn't very stable on my
>> system. I did get some good extra practice on that.
>>
>> Since I've gratuated, of course, I've personally arranged the purchase of at
>> least 5 copies of Media Composer, as well as lobied in favour of larger
>> scale purchases. I've also in that time been responsible for sales on one
>> copy of Final Cut Studio and three copies of Adobe Creative Suite.
>>
>> The people who learn these tools are the same ones who later motivate sales
>> of those tools.
>>
>> Personally I think Avid should get crazy in the face of this - a 1-to-1
>> no-cost replacement of Final Cut Studio for educational institutions, and
>> deep discounts on Avid IO hardware.
>>
>> It would be a "lost" revenue of $295 for each installation, but the value in
>> having future editors exposed to Avid will far exceed that.
>>
>>
>> Dylan Reeve
>> http://dylanreeve.com/
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>> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Terence Curren <tcurren@aol.com> wrote:
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>>> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Mark Myers <MarkM@...> wrote:
>>>
>>> <<I have seen a lot of cracked versions of Avid for both Mac and PC among
>>>> my students. It is fairly readily available. >>
>>>
>>> Must be since they went dongle-less. Last time I looked into this area it
>>> was only PC versions and they were hosted in China.
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