One more developer went bonkers

Discussion in 'Software' started by Synclavier, Jan 22, 2022.

  1. Prendergast

    Prendergast Producer

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    Nope. Please read my post again. You missed an important detail. :yes:
     
  2. Djord Emer

    Djord Emer Audiosexual

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    developer's mental state apart it's a dope plugin, quite unique, thanks for letting me know it went Warez, I'm having a good time playing with it. :wink:
     
  3. D____R

    D____R Kapellmeister

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    Thank you, sir. It's hard to imagine R2R releases out there that don't take center stage on the sister site. Managed to find it, thanks again.
     
  4. BuntyMcCunty

    BuntyMcCunty Rock Star

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    Yeah, I always think of Yandex as the Russian Google. But unlike the Chinese search engines, you can access it in English. They don't seem to care as much as Google does about warez/torrents.

    Duck Duck Go is pretty good as well, but I always have most luck on Yandex.
     
  5. westfinch

    westfinch Platinum Record

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    This must have been pulled down very quickly. I rarely miss any post. Never saw it, but upawg has it listed for the 19th.
     
  6. Guitarmaniac64

    Guitarmaniac64 Platinum Record

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    "Checks all licenses and search for
    "Q1V2X" strings to delete all R2R
    licenses in the computers"
    With Marcus plugin you got away with first making the license read only then put the plugins in separate folders.
    My AT plugins still works and no license has been deleted i could however not make some of those RET releases to work it wouldnt accept the license file.
    I didnt know that Audiority did the same.
     
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  7. westfinch

    westfinch Platinum Record

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    Very nice!! Was unaware of this. Thanks for the info.
     
  8. Guitarmaniac64

    Guitarmaniac64 Platinum Record

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    Usually it takes about one day before it is pulled down and it was alot of releases that day (especially all those sample stuff Decibell released which was alot that day it was 7 pages of stuff that day) so it is pretty easy to miss it.
    But as always it can be found elsewhere
     
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  9. droplet

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    Don't want to get political and all, but Audiothing and R2R could be the same. and this could be a false flag operation: a diversion. The big cracks are forthcoming. I can feel it.
     
  10. timer

    timer Producer

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    What could possibly go wrong?

    I have bought some plugins from AudioThing and Audiority in the past.
    If they decide to turn them into malware, I decide I won't buy anything from them from now on, refrain from updating and even consider to delete the ones I have paid for. They have proven not to be trustworthy companies so my strategy is to regard them as inexistent.
     
  11. triggerflipper

    triggerflipper Audiosexual

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    Oh no, I really loved both devs, now I'm gonna have to KEEP USING THEIR CRACKED VERSIONS LOLOL
     
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  12. clumsybear

    clumsybear Newbie

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    so audiority as well? I thought these were different devs, no?
     
  13. Synclavier

    Synclavier Rock Star

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    different devs they are all Italian and have anti R2R techniques

    NOTE ABOUT CURRENT AUDIORITY PROTECTION
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    1.BLACKLISTING
    Because legit keys are abused in the past, products are now containing
    blacklists. It isn't checked immediately.

    2.DELAYCHECK
    Delaying checks for someone who tries to do some dirty crack without license.

    3.ANTI-R2R
    Checking some unique R2R watermark! We had to remove one of them from new
    keygen this time :)

    4.MODIFIED UPX
    VST2/VST3 are packed by UPX. Modified some information to avoid unpacking by
    upx -d command. Not effective at all, it also increases loading time.

    Apart from the blacklist function, extra protections are mainly made for
    the crackers who change the code to force-validate the broken license.


    The main protection is called Uhe-ish. Generate number 0 - 1999 from user
    email address then use that number to verify hardcoded hash.

    Pseudo Code Of Main Protection :

    hashNum = getHashNum(userEmail);
    myHash = whirlpool(hiddenMes);
    if (verifyHash(myHash, hardcodedHash[hashNum]) == true) {

    isActivated = true;
    } else {
    isActivated = false;
    }

    Of course, you can't get it working right by just cracking that hash
    verification function. License is also encrypted by RSA512 or 2048. It's not
    year 2,000 anymore :)



    VR CRACK
    --------
    Generally, VR is trying to use one legit keyfile for every other products.

    * Changing internal product code to others (example AUDPLG18 -> AUDPLG12C)
    * Bypassing Whirlpool hash checks.
    * Try to avoid some timebomb.
    * If product is using new RSA2048 based system, change the code to force
    product to do authorize using old RSA512 common key system.

    Unfortunately, Audiority did some extra works to stop using previously-
    abused-licenses and the-license-for-other-products.
    Judging from the modification VR made, they are not undestanding how the
    things work and what they are doing. Some modifications are not needed, and
    some required modifications are not done properly (or not even touched).

    Another problem is that protections in products are not same. Product-A has
    RSA512 crypto and custom check X, another Product-B has RSA2048 crypto and
    custom check X and Y. That's why VR is having hard time to complete the
    whole bundle. Unless they learn to solve mathematical things without changing
    the code, you can't expect improvement - that cracker and you always need to
    do some heavy test one by one.


    RET CRACK
    ---------
    RET generated another valid license from leaked one. The weak point of
    those hardcoded-hash protections. This should be the best way, but you need
    to wait the leakage. We filled the non-leaked products with keygen this time!
     
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  14. birdboi

    birdboi Producer

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    Where did you find this info?
     
  15. Synclavier

    Synclavier Rock Star

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    Audiority.Green.Reaper.v1.1.2.Incl.Patched.and.Keygen.READ.NFO
     
  16. clumsybear

    clumsybear Newbie

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    And R2R can play this a while till they run out of characters.
     
  18. Ad_Vyse

    Ad_Vyse Member

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    Developers need to learn from companies like Imageline. Use one of the weakest protections that doesn't intrude on users' systems too much. Let people pirate it like crazy. Give people lifetime free updates for legit users. Become one of the most used programs in the audio sphere in less than 2 decades.

    I have bought most of the stuff I've ever used but there are just some things I refuse to buy because the companies could not care less about the end users. "We'll have endless/random online server license checks, we'll make our program install into 4 different directories, we'll force people to buy and use crappy 3rd party hardware based protections that wouldn't exist if we gave even the slightest of shits about our customers. Hahaha, that'll teach those pirates"

    They'll never get my money. Meanwhile, I bought Fl Studio for me and a friend because of how user friendly they are. Same with Omnisphere, the XLN stuff I have, Fabfilter, and too many to list here.

    Developers need to get real and realize they aren't protecting their products from pirates. They're protecting it from legit buyers.
     
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  19. triggerflipper

    triggerflipper Audiosexual

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    The latest R2R licence generator for Audiothing doesn't seem to work.

    I'm super angry.
     
  20. vladimir guerrero

    vladimir guerrero Kapellmeister

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    I get the same thing. Does this by chance register as a virus for you? What was your download source? It's not even on RU :-\
     
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