REQ: Stolen trainers to be removed from GCW

[TippeX]

for me, code theft is code theft, the person stealing the code obviously does not have the skills required to do the work themselves and are just trying to make a name for themselves (at the real authors expense).. such actions only last a short time before people detect the truth...

for me, if even one example can be given of code theft from the original author (showing code that was injected etc, and the 'fake' code), then i am more than happy to analyse it and ask that the trainers using stolen code be removed

i've seen people using ripped code from my own tools and it does piss me off immensely so i fully understand the situation...

as for gcw being a bunch of pirates.. thats simply wrong, the rules are there about warez users.. anyone using warez on the site is banned, and there's quite a few cases of this happening recently

[Joe Forster/STA]

Some short answers, for clarification...

EA does complain about cracks for their games being hosted on GCW but so what? Also, cracks for their recent games are available on GameFix only as they're against GCW's (current) rule: only cracks against copy protections based on physical media are hosted.

We cannot know the exact purpose of GCW, the site, only Empire can. I have my guesses but I'm not sure if anyone would be interested. (Rest assured, it's not for the money coming from advertizers, though...) But it is a fact that the (current) rules strive to drive warez users away. However effective it is is quite similar to how effective other anti-piracy measures are: not much. It would be possible to create a site that no warez user can access - and it would be completely unusable, too, or its access would be so complicated that people would go to another site. What would be the point then? Compromises, people, compromises! On the other hand, I'm not sure if warez users actually need GCW: the vast majority of cracks, that appear on the site, originally come from a warez release that they probably have access to, in some way, if they already managed to get a pirated copy of the game.

As for the "activation cracks will never get hosted on GCW" idea, noone can tell for sure. Again, only one person knows the true purpose of the site and only he can make final decisions about it. There may be some day when such cracks will be hosted; it may simply depend on the ratio of interest from visitors vs. the "disinterest" from publishers.

Giving away/getting cracks for free and putting your name onto the work of some other person is different. We have an expression against the latter in Hungarian: "betyárbecsület" = "honor of rascals" (mirror translation); it means that criminals avoid messing with each other's interests. This also kind of shows in the pride of cracer groups sending fuck offs to each other for not fully working cracks, improper propers etc.: if insiders don't follow the rules and this behavior proliferates then the whole scene will break apart. [...] To avoid misunderstandings: I'm not suggesting that crackers or trainer authors are criminals - although the creations of either or both may be illegal in some countries. I'm merely pointing out that even criminals are supposed to have some hard limits of their own that no colleague may ever step through.

By the way, my mentality is also to get everything for free, if possible. I'm a communist, remember, and proud of it. But if there's any person with a different mentality, please, raise your hand: you have violated the second law of thermodynamics already!