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by shwaj 4 days ago
I didn’t grow up with that hobby. The point stands anyway.

Cracking a binary circumvents authorization to provide full access to functionality the program already has. That’s very different from modifying the program to add new features.

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Not really. It's a social structure that separates these two things, and a social structure nobody really needs to recognize.