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The founder of the small software company Coding Robots was shocked when he found out that one of his works had been cracked and shared on The Pirate Bay. However, instead of asking The Pirate Bay to remove the torrent the company’s founder did quite the opposite. He sent a ‘Notice of Ridiculous Activity’ because the crack didn’t live up to his expectations.
Mémoires is an application that allows Mac users to keep an easy and elegant journal. The application is developed by Coding Robots and can be purchased for $29.95 after a full 30-day trial. However, those who prefer a longer trial can get an unauthorized copy from one of the many torrent sites out there.
A few months ago Dmitry Chestnykh, the founder of Coding Robots and copyright holder of Mémoires, discovered that his program – like many others – was being shared via The Pirate Bay. Out of curiosity he decided to download the torrent to find out how it was cracked, and he didn’t like what he saw.
In a passionate “Notice of Ridiculous Activity” (reproduced in part below, errors intact) the company’s founder decided to notify The Pirate Bay crew about his findings, shocked as he was at the crappy work of the person who cracked his application.
“Not only it requires installing APE plugin, and generating keyfiles using some scary tool, it contains a fucking *WINDOWS* program to verify the validity of this release. The ‘How-to’ section in the description is just incomprehensible, and won’t be understood by anyone other than the writer of the description,” Chestnykh writes.
“Clearly, the ‘cracker’ Minamoto did a lazy job and don’t know how to crack software. It’s a fucking SINGLE BOOLEAN SWITCH that validates the license, it doesn’t require any Application Enhancer tricks or whatever.”
“I demand that you don’t remove this torrent, so that people can laugh at Minimoto and CORE skills. However, I also demand the better crack be made, so that it doesn’t cripple the use experience of my beautiful program,” Chestnykh added, putting pressure on the Pirate Bay crew.
For the Pirate Bay crew it must have been refreshing to receive a request to keep a torrent, especially when it’s written in a mildly entertaining form reminiscent of the replies sent by the site to copyright holders in the past.
Ironically, however, the torrent has been removed from The Pirate Bay for reasons unknown.
Below is the notice in full, as found on .
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Admit Nothing, Deny EVERYTHING, DEMAND Pr00f!
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