[thunfischtoast]

When the pirated version is truer to the original contract than the official version. What a time to be alive.

[CamperBob2]

When buying isn't owning, pirating isn't stealing.

[userbinator]

Could be as little as a one-byte difference to patch out the expiry check.

[teaearlgraycold]

Damn, you could create an illegal number by sharing an offset+value.

[Retr0id]

Or indeed an illegal LLM prompt: "/goal locate and patch out the licensing check"

[angry_octet]

Enforcing your rights under your contract by patching out some cert validation checks seems legal to me. Maybe not in places with anti-circumvention laws, but elsewhere it seems fine.

[userbinator]

It would be amusingly ironic if someone used Copilot to do it.

[londons_explore]

Pretty sure this is beyond copilots abilities... It's really bad at any kind of binary analysis.

[MatejKafka]

It is absolutely great at binary analysis, as long as you give it a decompiler.

[ZeWaka]

Really? It's been pretty good with a Ghidra MCP at signature scanning for extremely niche undocumented software.

[varispeed]

Sometimes one bit.