[itsnotlupus]

Cracking is about removing anti-features, typically copy protections. It pairs well with pirating, but neither one strictly requires the other.

[nonethewiser]

> Cracking is about removing anti-features

Anti what features? Piracy?

[function_seven]

Anti-backup, Anti-I-don't-have-a-cdrom-on-this-machine, Anti-I-lost-the-stupid-dongle, etc.

Like parent says, cracking and piracy pair well, but I've had to do it many times just for compatibility reasons, on software I had purchased.

[xxs]

The anti-what-word-is-on-the-17th-page-3rd-paragraph-of-the-handbook was a very common on for so many games.

[nonethewiser]

> Anti-backup, Anti-I-don't-have-a-cdrom-on-this-machine, Anti-I-lost-the-stupid-dongle, etc.

All perfectly understandable to me. But from the perspective of the people designing the anti-something system, wouldn't they call it piracy?

We can argue if piracy is a charitable enough name for bypassing copyright protections but that's irrelevant in terms of whether or not that is the thing the software provider is trying to do.

[Dylan16807]

And just anti-convenience! Nobody wants to swap CDs purely to tick a checkbox.