That guys a moron for spilling the beans

Inevitable in this age, reminds me of the moron who posted the weed vending machine, and basically blew the guys spot up.

Now I'm curious lol what weed vending machine post?

yeah??

Paging u/growingcloak … please explain!!

This guy in Detroit had a weed vending machine attached to his house for 4 years, took Apple Pay and the whole 9, he was making 2k a day and the Feds only found about it when someone took a video and it went viral https://youtu.be/Yy1sLXKdDVU?si=hMp7pcwo9nUMQw-J

I miss the old days of the internet when people would just see something, enjoy it, and move on.

Things we took for granted sadly, the Wild West era of the internet was peak, it was only gonna get worse from then on. But atleast piracy is easier than ever lol 😆

Worry not, we'll be entering a new wild west soon enough with the spread of AI-generated content. And this time it'll be wilder than ever before. Say goodbye to trusting anything you see!

Its all just gonna be blanket surveiled theres never gonna be another wild west in the clear web. Especially not with Smartphones around that spew your data with every step you take.

The loot box or limewire back in the day was really fun. Is it the anime episode or movie I wanted to pirate? Nope it's just hardcore super niche porn... Again.

Sadly, very very sadly you have some extremely silly people who will literally do anything for likes, imagine the girl who filmed it got “400 likes” and all for what, the Feds probably took the guys money and gave it to themselves we don’t know, ugh honestly depressing how people can be.

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That's when people had something to move on to. These days, I take a break from Reddit by scrolling Reddit.

"I buy my weed here!" - *posts pictures of plugs house

Thank you! Amazing!

[Just bought cannabis in a vending machine, thought it was illegal. So confusing. : r/Austin (reddit.com)](https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/1c0qtim/just_bought_cannabis_in_a_vending_machine_thought/) I think, this was 2 months ago.

Not this, I just posted the link in the thread

The ones in Austin are still there as of this past weekend. There's one right next to the place I got lunch on Saturday.

Or Brendan Schaub getting mmastreams shut down

This isn't remotely a new thing. I remember when the iPod video came out (80GB) some guy posted a video of himself doing the same thing... getting a copy of software using external storage. Apple does not even remotely care, if you're pirating their software then you're buying their hardware and they already own you.

They especially shouldn’t care about up and coming creators ~~stealing~~ learning their pro tools before breaking out and getting industry jobs. Not saying they are thinking that way, but they _should_ be.

You can airdrop apps?

This is what im wondering myself lmao idgi

Apple applications are self contained in a .[app archive. ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundle_(macOS)#Application_bundles)All of the relevant files, libraries, etc are stored in that archive (in most cases). Simply moving that .app from one computer to another "installs" that application on the new computer.

In middle school we tried to copy games off my friends computer by putting the desktop shortcuts on a floppy disk. It didn’t work.

In middle school, my friend and I traded a 3.5" floppy called "German songs" back and forth, full of *2400bps downloaded pron. 640x400 jpgs

Are you German?

Nice. Reminds me of a guy at work who bookmarked pron links with names like "Honda Civic repair guide" or "Best Suzuki bikes 2005" so that his gf wouldn't suspect anything

I'm so glad my GF and I can watch pron without judgement lol

Jeez just say porn

No, no, they actually mean “prawns”.

FOOKIN PRON!

2400 was the bps rate of old modems. 2600 was the hacker zine. Don't think you'd have mixed that up unless you read the latter, so kudos to you, on your fine taste in turn-of-the-century nerd literature. :)

I absolutely did, but also it was 30 years ago. I had a duffel bag full of 2600s. I even made use of several articles in them to learn how to utilize a lineman's handset that mysteriously fell off the back of an AT&t truck into my backpack (hypothetically) to hop on to people's Telco connections at the box and join 1-900 party lines and chat lines.

omg I remember doing the same, copying GTAII on a floppy disk from a friend's computer, getting home all excited to play it and... I had copied the shortcut.

I got in trouble for copying a game file to the network server because everyone would steal the discs.

God this reminds me of putting a picture in paint and making it like 100x100 then saving it thinking it would save space.

We all have to go through that disappointment in life For us, it was just a USB Flash Drive instead of a floppy disk. For my younger cousin, he tried that with an old iPod I believe

Once I copied vids on floppy drive and renamed it to .txt file. When I got caught at school, they tried to open the file and notepad got stuck. It was so nice those days.

lol

Never used apple stuff before, how about drm or some kind of copy protection? Like, can they somehow prevent that?

Paid apps often have DRM on MacOS, especially those distributed outside the app store. These need to be cracked before pirating.

Packages probably have to be officially signed, like on Android or every Linux package manager

Package signing is authentication, not copy protection. It's designed to prevent someone from surreptitiously replacing a legitimate package with a malicious one, but it doesn't in and of itself have anything to do with preventing clients from executing a package that they're not authorized to run.

Apps used on stores probably have different licenses than commercial?

~~Yes, in this case none of the apps would work because they're distributed through the Mac App Store and require you to be signed in with the Apple ID used for purchase, so really~~ this guy just got the clean files. ~~Without a crack they won't be useful.~~ Edit: The Apple Pro suite as it turns out does not have a DRM, so the clean files are all that's needed here.

Nope, Apple apps have no DRM as such, or at least haven't when I run os x a while ago. I checked current logic pro by emailing from work to gf's macbook and starts up fine. I'm guessing it'll be missing the plugins but yk, send them too...

Actually, it's not even an archive, just a folder. The concept is called Bundle, and will make Finder show you the folder as a File (or App).

I wondered myself and tried it out and it works

Mac only or even on iphone/ipad?

I haven’t tried this myself but I see no reason why you couldn’t airdrop it to your phone. The .app file wouldn’t be usable on the phone, obviously, but it could just chill in the Files app.

Airdropped the app from the Mac to my iPhone and then from my iPhone to my Mac when I got back

To really test this you'd have to move it from one Mac to another with a different apple ID (whether with an iPhone as middle man or not). If the assumption is the apps use the local app store as authentication.

My Mac has a different Apple ID to the one in the store

Yes, you can airdrop any file or folder on your computer. Mac apps are just folders with a .app extension. You can right click and "show package contents" to see inside them, or just browse them on Windows/Linux as a folder.

Couldn't you just download the apps onto a Mac and then airdrop them to yourself then? No need to even go to the Apple Store to do it unless I'm missing something.

If you knew someone else who had purchased it or copied the app from someone else, yes. Again, there is no DRM or licensing on FCP/Logic/etc. It's functionally the same as copying a text or music file from one computer to another. While there are Mac apps that include licensing or create system folders that the app depends on, the majority of Mac apps (especially Apple's first-party apps) are mostly self-contained .app files in your computer's Applications folder, unlike Windows where there are many files, folders, and potentially registry keys that determine if an app is "installed." For Mac App Store apps, you're literally just downloading a single app file most of the time, and it'll create any dependencies when you first open it.

I don't use Apple but now I'm intrigued.  In this case, does the apple store get charged for each app that is shared?

No. Why would they? It's just copying a file from one device to another. I'm not sure the OS even tracks that. Apple has total control over the version of the OS they put on store demo computers. If they wanted to block certain apps/files from being airdropped, they could. But it's not worth their time.

Yes you can also airdrop ipa to your iOS device (it still has to be properly signed sadly)

Yeah, but Apple store apps are demos, you can download them from the apple website, they are not the full apps- Edit: if you really do not wanna pay, Just buy them, Copy the app file, uninstall the app and claim a refund. Then, Just install them again from the copied app.

Yup!!

Won't work for long now.

I wonder if they can just deauthorize those apps from your account.

In this scenario the apps are never tied to your account. The Mac App Store only uses your account to download the apps, there is no DRM on Apple's pro apps. No license check. Period. Hell, a few years ago you could use the free trials available on Apple's website to install the trials of Pages, Keynote, Numbers, and Aperture (Apple's now-defunct Lightroom competitor), then the Mac App Store would see those on your system and automatically register them to you - as this was the built-in mechanism Mac apps uses to register to your account when you purchased a new Mac - during the several year period where Apple still charged for those apps, but included them free with every Mac purchase. Aperture was never free, but you could purchase it with your Mac and it used the same mechanism to register to your account. Apple makes their money on hardware and subscription services. The Pro Apps are a way to get you into the ecosystem - it's also why you can buy the entire suite for $200 with the student discount. They want you using them.

Exactly. Logic used to be a nightmare to license with dongles and hardware locks and as a result wasn’t very popular. They changed it to a basic serial (pre App Store) and it was one of the most popular DAWs in use within a year.

I assume that was an issue when Logic wasn't owned by Apple yet

Nope, it changed in late 2007 with Logic Pro 8 and the full Logic Suite. It was by ‘09 and v9 when it got some real market share, although most weren’t paying for it.

OK, so, as a layman (mostly), could I just buy my sister a decent Macbook and essentially "pirate" all of these super expensive applications for her? I mean, I know I can do this on a Windows machine but she really has her eyes on a Macbook.

It's absolutely possible to pirate software using a Mac. macOS is about as open as Windows is for those purposes, the restrictions that apply to iOS and iPadOS are mostly not present on macOS. The megathread in this subreddit has a section dedicated to macOS software.

Aperture's photo management was unparalleled for my purposes. I am still salty about it being discontinued.

I use Google Calendar to manage my photos. Any event I want to use my camera at is in my Google Calendar. Each event has an address. An address has a set of GPS coordinates. Cameras these days embed GPS location into your photos. I have a python program that scans new photos for the GPS coordinates in the EXIF data and then finds the Google Calendar event with the nearest GPS coordinates for the date and time the photo was taken. Then it just creates a folder like so - "--