ctitanic

Originally Posted by CBombC

I agree with you ctitanic, and I think there should be ways to prevent pirating software, but as others have stated, what if one makes a mistake entering or something else goes wrong, does that warrant a "punishment" like a hard reset? It actually serves the person right that gets the software unetically, I think that's kind of funny, only to that unethical person. But to others that are innocent, that may make a mistake...that's not worth the risk. I understand what you are saying and its unfortunate, especially for the developers, that people feel the need to "steal" from them. To those "theives" I say, "You got what you deserve!"

But, I can tell you that the chances of a mistake in a key are almost null, unless you have visited one of those WAREZ, IRC or P2Ps ;) That´s the point that it´s hard to understand by us developers, that we know that such mistake does not exist. Of course in another hand I can understand legal user´s concerns because they don´t know what is behind the code and they could have the feeling of a "TV with a Bomb inside" ;)

If you look around you will find ONLY a complain from a theive. NO a complain from a legal user. Of course, you will find 1000 of complains from other that were not affected but think that they may be affected someday. ;) And STOP, I´m not saying that they may be affected because they are stealing too, I´m talking about those who use legal software and think that they may be affected by mistake.

Well, one of the option of Tweaks2k2 is a Hard Reset, it took me about a year to add that procedure just because I thought that it could scare people to know that there in somewhere inside of my program was "that bomb". I finally included because many of my users asked for it. And I have to say, that in more than 2 years, I have not had ONE users saying that he activated the "bomb" by mistake. ;)