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How do companies know if I use cracked software or assets for my personal gig? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For context, I want to run a small personal gig (offering stuff on Patreon). Nothing too fancy.

In order to do that, I would need to use the Adobe suite, Windows, some audio and video effects, all requiring a commercial license.

In theory, I start to make money. How would Microsoft and Adobe know that I don't pay for their software?

If I use some audio effects, how would their owners even be able to tell / find my work? We're talking about basic sound effect, like rain, door knocks etc.

I've always been confused by this

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I just read about Solidworks. Don't pirate that, it still contacts home and gives them all the info it can pull from your pc: ip, your name, company info, etc. and then they send you a huge bill for the costs of 5 years or so of licensing. Also don't have an illegal copy next to a legal one, because then the legal one will detect the illegal one and send the info. Or open projects created with pirated software with a legal version.

Of course this data snooping would be illegal in the EU, but outside that I would be careful.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

You can block the communication with a firewall rules. Is there something different with solidworks?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Doubtful. Load it up in a VM. Windows guest, Linux host. Use a network monitor to see what it does with and without a firewall on.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

No, it's the same as every other program that dials home. If it's a proper cracked version that part will be already removed, if not you can just block the network communications from any of it's components.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's so much intelligent programming

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Intelligent programming that makes the user's experience worse

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

It's still pretty cool though. Especially DRM like denuvo, it's pretty amazing how the DRM can scramble stuff and unscramble it and how it has multiple redundant ways to detect if it's working correctly or not.

It's even crazier how some people can remove it.

Denuvo absolutely worsens the UX though. Not sure if the Autodesk thing would worsen it though. Doesn't sound like it.