iPhone DRM App Claims It Can Stop All Pirates

There has never been a single DRM scheme that has not been broken. I sincerely doubt this will be the first one.

Agreed, Mike. There's always a way around something. Portal and common sense can teach us that.

Well, if it does stop 100.000000000000000000% of pirates, it will definately stop 100% of the ligitimate users from actually having any digital rights. That is the problem with Digital Rights MANAGEMENT. The fact that someone other than the end user is MANAGING it means that the RIGHTS are taken away from the user. DRM should be DRCMTPYFHAARTYDM Digital Rights Control Mechanism To Prevent You From Having Any Actual Rights To Your Digital Media. Or more simply Digital Rights Removal might work. In other words, all the media people really are saying is that you are not buying any right to the media you buy, you are simply getting the privilage to listen, watch, whatever as long as they deem you to be allowed. Makes you a renter, not a buyer.

I agree with the posts above. It will be a matter of days until somebody figures out a way to get around this. It's a waste of time and an insult to legitimate customers.

I'm glad everyone here wants to just torrent and not pay for anything.

Now just because we said something like that IN NO WAY means that we do. We're commenting on sercuirty holes here, not the concept of downloading.

DOWN BOY!

It sounds like the Titanic (unsinkable) to me. Never underestimate anything or anyone.

RIght, you people don't steal? Everyone that really complains about drm just wants their torrents faster.

Yeah, ok buddy. Dont let that tin foil hat of yours get TOO tight there.

Ah, a wonderful combination of hubris and greed, so Ripdev can fleece developers of their hard-earned money even faster than pirates can. Basically, what they describe is effectively what ALL DRM has done. What they fail to realize/mention is that what DRM cracking does is tunnel through said DRM protection while fooling the DRM into thinking that it's still functioning. I would not be surprised to see it broken inside of 16 hours of its release.

And yes, there are actually methods of preventing all piracy... It's called making the program worthless in the first place, to the point that no one who's not a pirate can use it either. Then there's the alternative of making your programs attractive enough to get enough buyers to make all the pirates inconsequential. What so many are loathe to admit, "pirates" come in two types: those of convenience, who largely do not exist for inexpensive, downloadable stuff, (we're talking the pre-legit Napster-era music sharers) and those that will, in all likelihood, never buy their program legit no matter what; they either won't ever spend money because they simply don't HAVE the money, or they hold it as a point of pride; either way, nothing's going to stop them. The only way around is to outwiegh their piracy with legit purchasers.

People who complain about DRM know that DRM is actually DRCMTPYFHAARTYDM Digital Rights Control Mechanism To Prevent You From Having Any Actual Rights To Your Digital Media. I could care less about DRM as far as me getting what I want from something I purchase, because there are lots of hackers out there that will defeat the DRM and allow me to have my Digital Rights that i paid for. I make alot of money and I spend alot of money. When i spend my money I want what I PAY FOR. If I pay for a song, the artist has been recompensed for their efforts and I OWN that song for MY PERSONAL use and my personal use may include an MP3 player, a CD player in my car, my computer at work, my computer at home, my laptop on trips. When DRM says that I can only play the music from the specific CD I purchased, my owner digital rights have been stolen. I personally stopped buying music maybe a decade ago, but I do not have any music on any of my devices that I do not also have a CD for in my storage room. I may have downloaded them from the internet, but I own them and have EVERY RIGHT to them. When a game maker tells me I can only put the game on one computer, again my ownership rights are taken away. I bought a game to play, if I want to load it on my personal computer and my laptop hell no I am not going to pay them for a second copy, I am only playing one at a time, and that is the legal definition of DIGITAL RIGHTS no matter what the EULA says. If I do not want to keep the CD in my CD drive all the time, that is MY RIGHT, my right to protect the only thing that says I OWN the software, I put the CD DVD once again, in the storage room, where it is safe and I can reproduce it in the future if it is lost from my hard disk.

It's all just marketing. The whole challenge is a ruse to get some attention. Once it gets cracked it will get even more and that won't even harm the sales since most copyprotections that have been cracked are still being sold.
The most curious thing is, that the hardware companies and to a small part the software developers try to maximize battery runtime and application speed to get the customers to like the product. Now we start wasting CPU cycles and battery time for useless things like drm. Great work.

Whatever makes you people sleep at night.

Please don't comment on something you don't know anything about...ignorance its not welcomed here.

Lmao yea I know nothing about, you people are pathetic.

"If you can make it,you can break it!"
Famous Hacker Saying.

Wrap it in another layer of software stuff that will make it run slower, so that 1) the legitimate user will have no rights of ownership and the right to use can be taken away any time (remember play for sure); 2) the pirate user might get a better performance out of the software wrapping (the scheme WILL be broken within 15 hours and 59 minutes)

Bingo!

You really think it will last 16 hours? You are giving this developer way more credit than I am.

Either this guy is the smartest programmer in the world or the dumbest one. I'll give it 4 hours.

I don't know why developers put up with it. I have a piracy control system in my apps, and it works like this: If you pirate the app, my app erases your filesystem. All of it. Not just your documents: it erases your file allocation table, and then the rest of the drive if there's time. This is pretty effective, because sure, you can patch it... but when I release an update that can check for the old patch, you're pretty much fucked.

There's no reason to crack apps, even if you're "testing" them out. That's what demos are for. You can try out a portion of the app. A lot of you who demo apps "demo" like 50% of the game, and then find it useless.

I don't see why Microsoft and other companies follow suit with things like this... pirate my software, and your filesystem goes down the shitter. Pretty simple concept.

Fuck you pirates.

I don't know why developers put up with it. I have a piracy control system in my apps, and it works like this: If you pirate the app, my app erases your filesystem. All of it. Not just your documents: it erases your file allocation table, and then the rest of the drive if there's time. This is pretty effective, because sure, you can patch it... but when I release an update that can check for the old patch, you're pretty much fucked.

There's no reason to crack apps, even if you're "testing" them out. That's what demos are for. You can try out a portion of the app. A lot of you who demo apps "demo" like 50% of the game, and then find it useless.

I don't see why Microsoft and other companies follow suit with things like this... pirate my software, and your filesystem goes down the shitter. Pretty simple concept.

LOL. It is too bad iPhone applications don't have access to the file system.

to ASmartDeveloper2
haha... you're not as smart as you think. What do you think the VM is for or the kernel debugger, or the custom rootkits. Go play outside with the other children you smuck

There are going to be some sad software programmers at Ripdev the day after they release lawl

I don't develop for the iPhone, you smuck. I develop for the PC and PocketPC, both of which I have access to the filesystem for.

Have fun pirating my software, I hope you enjoyed having a harddrive with bits other than 0 written to it.

Ahahaha! This Smartdouche is an idiot. Please prey tell what software would do that much damage to someones system and still allow you to be in business after the first incident. What if his "app" mistakenly thinks you are attempting to crack it? You send the person/business an apology letter? LOL! Go sit on it!

Sorry, you are not making any sense. You would be sued out of your clothing if you actualy did this. You actualy think we believe that you would destroy thousands of dollars worth of information to save your $10 POS sofware?

What happens if your masterpiece erases someone's hard drive by accident?

I agree with the other poster, go play with the other children, or better yet in the freeway.

Apple bricking the iphone with updates, not new. But when a hint of an update mistakenly bricking your system, erasing your stuff etc. well, I'd stay really far far away from that application, legitimate or ...

I am just wondering would a VM be able to stop Asmartdeveloper's method of protecting his app.

Just for the heck of it, why not send your app to tomshardware and have them test it and see if it can defeat VM.

No. You actually don't develop for anything. No software programming would ever be allowed to write software with that sort of function. You are quite an idiot.

Wow! Thats cool! What program is it exactly? I would love to purchase it put it through the test and see how quickly it wipes out my entire drive! I am willing to risk my HDD! Please let me know, thanks.