PocketMatrix

How would you do that? All the large distribution places have operators/moderators everywhere, not to mention tons of private sites.

If you write the software using .net or vb it can't be disassembled. So someone would have to buy it to spread it. Mix that with a device generated serial and you'd see lots of activity from someone who is giving out serials.

The first statement could be wrong, going off of what i've heard.

Cracking at the simplest level just requires a Hex editor, and setting various bytes to 0. For example, to keep a message box from appearing, you can set the first character of the string to 0. The MessageBox routine will not show a window if it is passed a string of zero length. 0 is NOP, so you can prevent branches to other code by setting a 0, etc.

The idea of any protection scheme is two-fold. To prevent casual sharing from among typical users, and to prevent trivial hacks from breaking the protection (ie the types of hacking I mentioned above).

Dan East

They just use a disassembler. <a href="http://www.datarescue.com/idabase/">ida pro</a> or somesuch.