When Software Attacks: Rabid Anti-Piracy Measures

by Jordan Yerman | February 24, 2007 at 12:11 pm

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Whilst not a developer myself, I have many friends who are, and they work long and hard on projects which will eventually get pirated. They often work in some sort of hindrance for unregistered use; none of them would do something like what is described in the article below, though.

A MAKER of Mac software has uncovered a “scary” anti-piracy measure in a bit of code called Display Eater.

Display Eater records motion video on your screen which you can then convert to a quicktime movie.

However writing in his bog here, Karsten Kusche, who works for another Apple software maker Briksoftware, says that if you try to use a pirated serial number with Display Eater, the software will delete your home file, which in Mac land is the same as killing your computer.

I was pointed to the above article by boingboing.