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Software crack illustration. Software cracking (known as "breaking" mostly in the 1980s [1]) is an act of removing copy protection from a software. [2] Copy protection can be removed by applying a specific crack. A crack can mean any tool that enables breaking software protection, a stolen product key, or guessed password. Cracking software ...
A No-disc crack, No-CD crack or No-DVD crack is an executable file or a special "byte patcher" program which allows a user to circumvent certain Compact Disc and DVD copy protection schemes. They allow the user to run computer software without having to insert their required CD-ROM or DVD-ROM. This act is a form of software cracking.
Empress (sometimes stylized EMPRESS) is a video game cracker who specializes in breaking anti-piracy software. While the true identity of Empress is unknown, she refers to herself as a young Russian woman. [1] [2] Empress has also released cracked games under the moniker C000005. [3] Empress is known as one of the few crackers who can crack Denuvo.
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It was more than a month after the PC release in the first week of April that software was released that could bypass Ubisoft's DRM in Assassin's Creed II. The software did this by emulating a Ubisoft server for the game. Later that month, a real crack was released that was able to remove the connection requirement altogether. [69] [70]
A typical crack intro has a scrolling text marquee at the bottom of the screen. A crack intro, also known as a cracktro, loader, or just intro, is a small introduction sequence added to cracked software. It aims to inform the user which cracking crew or individual cracker removed the software's copy protection and distributed the crack. [1] [2] [3]
Before the release of DeCSS, free and open source operating systems (such as BSD and Linux) could not play encrypted video DVDs. DeCSS's development was done without a license from the DVD Copy Control Association (CCA), the organization responsible for DVD copy protection —namely, the Content Scramble System (CSS) used by commercial DVD ...
OpenShot Video Editor is a free and open-source video editor for Windows, macOS, Linux, and ChromeOS.The project started in August 2008 by Jonathan Thomas, with the objective of providing a stable, free, and friendly to use video editor.