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Remember guys, this is why we don't pay for the apps. (i.imgur.com)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by kratoz29@lemm.ee to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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This is the app called Franco Kernel Manager, one of the best kernel managers that are out there... Even when it was outdated (which I think that's the cause it got booted from the PlayStore?).

I used it to check the process of my phone and monitor the active and idle drain mostly, I paid for it a long time ago, but now it just fails to check the licence and it doesn't let me use it fully... I think there must be a cracked APK over there...

EDIT:

Fortunately the app is back in the store and hopefully that update version comes soon enough!

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[-] neatchee@lemmy.world 506 points 7 months ago

There are lots of reasons to pirate stuff, but this argument in particular boils down to "We should steal stuff now because maybe some day in the future I won't be able to use the paid version after they go out of business." And that is shitty.

You bought it, so go crack it now that the license check is broken and nobody will care. That's GOOD piracy. Support the creators, pirate when you can't or it's unreasonable to pay (more).

Don't just pirate to mitigate theoretical future inconvenience. Do it to circumvent actual inconvenience, or to get things you couldn't otherwise afford, or to say "fuck you" to big, shitty companies.

But pirating from a small-time dev just in case there are maybe license problems far in the future is not The Way

[-] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 55 points 7 months ago

Couldn't agree more on it being a bad justification for piracy

Though if you bought it and the license check stops working later I'm not even sure I'd call patching it to work without the check piracy, it's simply fixing something you own

Yeah you're going to use the same tools but to me I don't see it as piracy but simply a right to repair thing

[-] neatchee@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

Yeah, exactly. It's the same reason I have little hesitance pirating a game I already have when the platform I have it on doesn't support mods (looking at you, Xbox game pass)

[-] wolfshadowheart@kbin.social 7 points 7 months ago

In this regard it's about the ability to pirate, which always comes down to the classic "it's a service issue."

The need for pirating this software wouldn't exist if the license check wasn't broken, but since it is, it's now the only way to access it regardless of your ownership or not.

[-] Klear@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 months ago

Back in the day I would often "pirate" games I owned on a CD because ot was faster than finding said CD.

[-] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 7 months ago

Or when I lived in a place with shit internet and I had games that needed an online handshake to play, I basically pirated every game that needed that check because I wouldn't be able to play otherwise

And they usually ran better too, funny that

[-] pelletbucket@lemm.ee 36 points 7 months ago

okay but if that's your purpose then there's no problem with purchasing and pirating at the same time.

[-] neatchee@lemmy.world 64 points 7 months ago

Absolutely. I do that regularly. Purchase to support the creators, pirate to meet some specific use case.

[-] pelletbucket@lemm.ee 14 points 7 months ago

like I've had more than one super good YouTube video essay go missing, getting permanently pulled because of some copyright issue with a background shot or something, so I'll actually add really good YouTube videos to my Plex library just in case as well

[-] neatchee@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

Totally. Though, that case can be a tiny bit tricky. Like, people should be allowed to remove stuff from the Internet that they've created if they want, but it should also be okay to archive content that may be abandoned or lost. Hard to create rules that differentiate the two effectively for enforcement

[-] pelletbucket@lemm.ee 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

the specific ones I'm talking about, they were removed by YouTube and not at the creators behest. like one of them is about the three stooges and whoever owns The Three stooges material complained about some copyrighted material in the background horse shit

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[-] NightAuthor@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago

I think if more people took that path, pirate only when you actually have a problem, much less content would be cracked and piratable.

Imagine OP and someone who is capable of cracking a software both bought and used this app, then 3 years later the app stops working. OP goes to look for a crack, but one doesn’t exist because the person who would have made it happened to stop using it before they had a need to crack it. So now OP is just boned.

So I say, always pirate everything and do so asap. And then obviously, if you want things to keep being produced, you should probably support the creators.

[-] neatchee@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

"I'm going to steal stuff because if I don't then people who NEED to steal it won't be able to" is some serious mental gymnastics.

Your argument only works for creating cracks, not consuming them. Absolutely create cracks even when they aren't needed. But that's not the same as using the crack even when you don't need to, just because you can

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[-] kratoz29@lemm.ee 9 points 7 months ago

Yeah, I agree with you completely, indeed I just posted this as in a meme manner.

I love FKM and I paid for it even when it was clear the app wasn't going to be updated that much, I usually don't feel any kind of remorse while pirating, but now this is justified and that is good too.

Regardless this is a good reminder that this can happen anytime with any app or service, being a good or a bad one, having nice or asshole devs/teams behind, and for that piracy will always be a handy solution, I just wish that abandoned apps could somehow being open sourced automatically, but that is a dream.

[-] bastion@feddit.nl 6 points 7 months ago

Solid.

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[-] const_void@lemmy.ml 109 points 7 months ago

OOPSIE WOOPSIE!! Uwu We made a fucky wucky!! A wittle fucko boingo! The code monkeys at our headquarters are working VEWY HAWD to fix this!

[-] abobla@lemm.ee 40 points 7 months ago

uwu kill me

[-] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 8 points 7 months ago

*kiw mwe

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[-] AceSLS@ani.social 40 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

You can crack most apps using Lucky Patcher

Make sure you get it from the official website though

[-] mtdyson_01@lemmynsfw.com 12 points 7 months ago

Looks like the luckypatcher.com and .info are both terribly spammy. Even with pureapk the download ended up being something called bluejay. Of course the play store chimed in and said installing it would be a horrible idea. I assume I just picked 3 fake sites to download from

[-] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Luckypatchers.com is the real one.
Also you should avoid pureapk, it has malware.
I recommend sticking to apkmirror if the application is available there.