iPhone cracking software sold without pirates consent
We wrote recently about developer James Bossert, whose Whack 'em All iPhone game had shifted 811 copies, of which only 196 had actually been paid for. His game was being distributed after Apples DRM was removed by custom cracking software (which we won't name here).
The developer of the cracking software is now bleating on his own forum about his unscrupulous, piratical competition selling the software he wrote for removing the protection on iPhone apps - without his consent.
A rival website has branded the original software as malware (with some reasonable arguments, though the rival's pretty unlikely to have actually removed any offending code) and is selling its own version of this cracking software at a profit.
The original writer of the software claims his forum has provided over 20,000 legitimate downloads, while his unprincipled counterpart is now making money from what should be free software. A kind of reverse piracy, if you like.
There's little point in highlighting the irony or the justice of it all, so well leave the last work to the cracking software's original developer, from another post on his forum:
Cracking apps is, and always has been, an illegal activity.
Well said.