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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is the app called Franco Kernel Manager, one of the best kernel managers that are out there... Even when it was outdated (which I think that's the cause it got booted from the PlayStore?).

I used it to check the process of my phone and monitor the active and idle drain mostly, I paid for it a long time ago, but now it just fails to check the licence and it doesn't let me use it fully... I think there must be a cracked APK over there...

EDIT:

Fortunately the app is back in the store and hopefully that update version comes soon enough!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Anyone can pose as a small and broke dev to say anything against piracy

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

IMO if an app is pulled from Google Play their license verification should just return true.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I agree, gladly the app is back in the store... And it even got a very much needed update!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

There are lots of reasons to pirate stuff, but this argument in particular boils down to "We should steal stuff now because maybe some day in the future I won't be able to use the paid version after they go out of business." And that is shitty.

You bought it, so go crack it now that the license check is broken and nobody will care. That's GOOD piracy. Support the creators, pirate when you can't or it's unreasonable to pay (more).

Don't just pirate to mitigate theoretical future inconvenience. Do it to circumvent actual inconvenience, or to get things you couldn't otherwise afford, or to say "fuck you" to big, shitty companies.

But pirating from a small-time dev just in case there are maybe license problems far in the future is not The Way

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

okay but if that's your purpose then there's no problem with purchasing and pirating at the same time.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Absolutely. I do that regularly. Purchase to support the creators, pirate to meet some specific use case.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

like I've had more than one super good YouTube video essay go missing, getting permanently pulled because of some copyright issue with a background shot or something, so I'll actually add really good YouTube videos to my Plex library just in case as well

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Totally. Though, that case can be a tiny bit tricky. Like, people should be allowed to remove stuff from the Internet that they've created if they want, but it should also be okay to archive content that may be abandoned or lost. Hard to create rules that differentiate the two effectively for enforcement

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

the specific ones I'm talking about, they were removed by YouTube and not at the creators behest. like one of them is about the three stooges and whoever owns The Three stooges material complained about some copyrighted material in the background horse shit

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sure I'm just thinking about how you'd write a law or policy that accommodated both reasonable scenarios

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

well it's a really interesting concept. there's really no other form of media where you could put something out there and then recall it somehow. like if you wrote a book that you didn't like, there's absolutely no legal way you could prevent people from reading it, etc. sort of ties into the Barbra Streisand effect

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

What's interesting with the comparison to books is that you can stop it from being published. You can't force people to give up the copy they already bought, but they can't make more copies and distribute it.

Hard to draw that distinction in the digital world

And if you want a better comparison, though of YouTube like a drive-in theater. You're not allowed to make a copy of the film with your camcorder and go distribute it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I agree with you completely, indeed I just posted this as in a meme manner.

I love FKM and I paid for it even when it was clear the app wasn't going to be updated that much, I usually don't feel any kind of remorse while pirating, but now this is justified and that is good too.

Regardless this is a good reminder that this can happen anytime with any app or service, being a good or a bad one, having nice or asshole devs/teams behind, and for that piracy will always be a handy solution, I just wish that abandoned apps could somehow being open sourced automatically, but that is a dream.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

OOPSIE WOOPSIE!! Uwu We made a fucky wucky!! A wittle fucko boingo! The code monkeys at our headquarters are working VEWY HAWD to fix this!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

swearing is rare on the fediverse, LETS FUCKING STOP VERY SLIGHTLY VALUABLE LEMMY COMMENT NFT'S BY SWEARING A BIT MORE

CUNT CUNT CUNT FUCK FUCK

okay i think im going insane to devalue an nft

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What the hell are you talking about

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

That might be the most fucking insane comment I’ve read since joining lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

uwu kill me

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

"There's an oopsie!"??? This fucking guy deserves to get his apps pirated.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

You can crack most apps using Lucky Patcher

Make sure you get it from the official website though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Looks like the luckypatcher.com and .info are both terribly spammy. Even with pureapk the download ended up being something called bluejay. Of course the play store chimed in and said installing it would be a horrible idea. I assume I just picked 3 fake sites to download from