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## Kracking Fantavision
Back in the day all the kids pretending to be cool used to use "3l33t" (elite) speak.
The spelling of "cracked" -- kracked -- is simply part of this "culture"
The altenative spelling of "cracked" -- kracked -- is simply part of this "culture"
or "warez scene" as it was (self) called.
"Cracking" is the (fine) art of removing copy protection.
"Cracking", or Kracking -- however the heck you want to spell it,
is the (fine) art of removing copy protection. When you shell out $40 for a program
you expect to be able to make a backup. Disks get damaged, companies go out
of business, and basically you, the customer, is screwed up shit-creek without a paddle.
This is unacceptable.
Of course some us, *cough*, also have _other_ reasons:
* To learn,
* Because we can,
* The fastest way to motive a programmer is to tell them they _can't_ do something!
_"Bet you can't copy this disk?"_
_"Oh yeah? Let's see about that!"_
Before the word _hacking_ got hijacked to mean _destructive intrusion_,
hacking _originally_ meant a **benign curiosity.** HOW did something work?
Learning for the sake of learning was the goal.
And then the script kiddies and "black hats" wrecked it for everyone.
People who started "trading" software without any moral considerations for
respecting other people's property -- since the justification was:
* Software is just a number afterall ...
The problem is the original publishers didn't get their money.
Next thing you know "hacking" is a "bad" thing. Yeah, FUCK OFF MSM (main-stream media)!
I'm still bitter about this corruption of words for some "agenda."
The original "hacker culture" had an ethos or "Code of Conduct."
You NEVER did anything out of malice. Inspite of pubslishers treating
you like crap and assuming you were one of those dirty "pirates."
And thus the copy protection wars were started.
Both sides not trusting the other -- and basically wanting to screw them over.
Enough about the history lesson.
How can we bypass the two nibble counts used on the original disk?