Crack to Darkstar One is out!!!! Get it here...

[HellasVagabond]

DAB trust me when i say they get paid just like every STRONG cracking Team out there. Like i said we dont pay them , other people do but since they do i dont think the "Free" term applies here.

[Joe Forster/STA]

Yeah, and they don't get paid if the crack doesn't work... Blablabla... For us, it is still free, so don't complain.

[DABhand]

Originally Posted by HellasVagabond

DAB trust me when i say they get paid just like every STRONG cracking Team out there. Like i said we dont pay them , other people do but since they do i dont think the "Free" term applies here.

I would like to know what source you found says they do lol

[Muji-FightR]

So far I haven't come across a (real) cracking team (not games in general, mainly SnD and similar stuff) that gets paid for anything.
I have seen that there are teams that get paid for hours, you can buy their skills so to say. And that's heavily illegal, if RE will be paid, that's like killing ppl for money, hardly the same, but the concept isnt very different
Those teams are no real teams anyway, I think that's a totally different scene

[TippeX]

actually its pretty common knowledge that the cracking teams (at least the game iso ones) DO make money from dodgy sources... mostly its from dodgy asians (not trying to be racist or stereo typical.. im talking from first hand experience) buying cracks and iso's before the games were even released on the inet etc (pre-pre's).. as for the money making the way to the crackers, thats another story.. i know of some in other teams who got free laptops and hardware for their 'job' and others who got nothing, and did the cracking for the fun of it (and then got totally screwed in the process when the 'heat' came)... people DO make money from piracy, thats a common fact, from your street corner seller, your friend who burns copies for his mates at $5 or whatever, right the way up to the asians pressing silver cd's/dvd's and selling them as legit...

and erm, isnt this going off topic?

[HellasVagabond]

I think the 2 previous covered me.
However i will just say that groups like Reloaded and others sell Games to the people that pay them.
Then the people that pay them fill entire HDs with games and distribute it around the world far before the games hit the market.
Hell i dont expect them to work for free but since they are doing it for money i dont accept the "free" term.



PS : Program Cracking Groups get paid for the cracking of major programs and not small time ones.
PS2 : We are off topic but i think its something we had to clear.

[DABhand]

FYI: I used to crack, and nobody gets paid nadda.


Its the Pirates with access to dumps who sell the stuff etc.


If they sold what they cracked, if found and taken to court, it would be alot worse than what they would have got for just cracking the protections.

Nobody is gonna put themselves in a situation where they would get a huge fine/jail time for selling or profiting.

[kosmiq]

Originally Posted by DABhand

FYI: I used to crack, and nobody gets paid nadda.


Its the Pirates with access to dumps who sell the stuff etc.


If they sold what they cracked, if found and taken to court, it would be alot worse than what they would have got for just cracking the protections.

Nobody is gonna put themselves in a situation where they would get a huge fine/jail time for selling or profiting.

If I am not mistaken one of the italian leaders for Razor1911 sold what they cracked once and he got busted and all that. I doubt most other cracking groups does that.

[Joe Forster/STA]

Originally Posted by DABhand

FYI: I used to crack, and nobody gets paid nadda.

Neither was I paid for it. But, mind you, neither of us are professional crackers, capable of defeating the top protections, so our lack of monetary funding proves nothing at all.