Nintendo’s latest Pokémon title “Pokémon Black and White” has sparked outrage amongst pirates for including a feature which prevents users of pirated copies from advancing in level.
“Majikon” users playing pirated copies of the game soon found Nintendo apparently added a variety of unwelcome additions to the game just for them – including making these players unable to accumulate experience points or advance the story at certain points, a tactic previously used to deprive Love Plus pirates of the ersatz love they so desperately crave.
2ch users discovering the changes for themselves were less than amused, although 2ch users watching their reaction to the discovery seem delighted:
“Nintendo’s getting too serious!”
“We can’t get any experience at all… a bit like our lives really!”
“Nintendo: ‘If you pirate it then try clearing it without any XP!'”
“I can’t get any XP! Doesn’t Nintendo think us pirates are customers too!?”
The western releases are due in the spring.
POKﾉMON WHITE
::Disable No Exp AP
:::Credits to 2ch
52004EA4 E12FFF1E
02004EA4 EAFFFDD5
E2004600 0000005C
E59F003C E5901000
E59F2038 E1510002
059F1034 05801008
05801148 059F102C
058010A8 058011E8
E59F0024 E5901000
E59F2020 E1510002
03A01001 05C0100A
E12FFF1E 02188084
E15F034F 36AAB337
36AAE06A 02180C80
28AAFF1F 00000000
D2000000 00000000
POKﾉMON BLACK
::Disable No Exp AP
:::Credits to 2ch
52004EA4 E12FFF1E
02004EA4 EAFFFDED
E2004660 0000005C
E59F003C E5901000
E59F2038 E1510002
059F1034 05801008
05801148 059F102C
058010A8 058011E8
E59F0024 E5901000
E59F2020 E1510002
03A01001 05C0100A
E12FFF1E 02188064
E15F034F 36AAB337
36E0AA6A 02180C60
28AAFF1F 00000000
D2000000 00000000
now you can gain EXP without worries.
Real pirates don’t weep! They say RAAWR, MOR RUM and remove that stupid protection the hell off.
In order to be a customer you have to actually BUY shit, dumbass!
wow even though the feature is effective hopefully not all games feature this. im not a pirate though i fear it might corrupt your game.
How hypocritical, really. They’re no better than what they’ve perceived all westerners to be.
That’s gott’a be the worst let-down, those anti-piracy blocks. Still, it’s got to be rather amusing in some aspect.
Fave 2ch responses:
“Nintendo’s getting too serious!” – Honestly, if this is Nintendo getting serious, then prepare for the butthurt when 3DS is released.
“We can’t get any experience at all… a bit like our lives really!” – LMAO
They’d do well to remember that customers [b]buy[/b] the product. After this fiasco, I don’t want to hear them ‘itch about pirating anything… ever.
The only copy of Pokemon BW im getting is the US Version of Grey. Right now im playing the ROM with a patch so that i get EXP and advance in the story…just to get a fix for now.
Chrome would be a better choice of title scheme.
Lol, Action Replay codes that give Rare Candies.
2ch users can’t enjoy their pirated Pokémon games… it must be the gaijin’s fault!
My name is Pokemon Pirate. You refuse to let me enjoy stolen merchandise. BAWBAW BAW BAW
Sounds bout right.
The funny thing is that these are the same guys that said “ohhh reading online manga is thievery… you all deserve to die”
So… playing a pirated game is not thievery at all, is it? Losers…
Of course, it’s always okay when it’s you neighbour and not you.
ITT idiots who don’t read the numerous posts stating that this has been COMPLETELY BYPASSED.
“I can’t get any XP! Doesn’t Nintendo think us pirates are customers too!?”
from wikipedia:
Customer
A customer (also known as a client, buyer, or purchaser) is usually used to refer to a current or potential buyer or user of the products of an individual or organization, called the supplier, seller, or vendor. This is typically through purchasing or renting goods or services.
so NO they in fact don’t BECAUSE YOU ARN’T
By the time it comes to U.S there will probably be a fix.
There is already one right now, people are just slowpoke…
Better than taking away the devices or making them short.
Either wait for the patch or buy it right now, that seems really really fair to me.
I don’t really give a fuck about playing it pirated but I like the pokesav.
Oh, you should have been around last year when Heart Gold and Soul Silver leaked a day before the Japanese release date and someone on 2ch had a copy and an English site got a hold of the news… Let’s just say that some of the later parts of the thread were…festive.
“We can’t get any experience at all… a bit like our lives really!”
Best thing i’ve heard in a long time lol this guy is great.
give it a week, there will be a patch to fool the game into thinking it’s not using a flash card. Just like the patch for Zelda Spirit Train.
A week? The patch was out after one day.
“I can’t get any XP! Doesn’t Nintendo think us pirates are customers too!?”
HA HA WOW
It’s amazing what pirates will say to justify stealing.
It’s not even an attempt to justify it, it’s just pathetic. Pirates have a lot of excuses, like ‘I pirate to try it out, if I like it then I buy it’ or ‘they shouldn’t charge so much for a game so I pirate it’, etc. All lies.
Look at World of Goo. No copy protection, I believe it was reasonably priced, and still they estimate only 10-20% of the players actually paid for their copies. I played the demo, enjoyed it but at the time couldn’t afford it, so I went without.
Pirates are just the worst kind of criminals, the self-deluded ones who feel entitled to something without paying for it. It’s because of them that games are expensive, riddled with copy protection and other inconveniences, and if you know someone who plays pirated games, break their fingers, because they’re stealing from *you*.
It’s not necessary to justify everything. For example, it would be impossibly for me to justify posting comments on sankaku, yet I do it anyway.
Meh fear not a fix ill be in the works.
Ironic how the no EXP anti piracy was cracked a few days ago.
Pirating is OK as long as Japanese do it.
All the big titels had a piracy protection lately.
It’s just that they all seem to be cracked within a day or two.
I always get pirated games , play them , asses the worth of it then buy it if i liked it.
About 2 years ago when stranglehold was a “holy shit nice game” i played the demo and then bought the game … only to be ef-ing dissapointed. However after that I played Mass Effect 1&2 Dragon Age (All) and Cs:S (and when i bought this from a store I got a bonus of 3 games 😀 : hl2dm,dod,hl2lc)
So my point is:
Get a game in a pirated way to test its worth THEN buy it. If you choose to buy it first and then weep about it then good luck in life.
Never too old too play Pokemon
playing Platinum and Heart Gold since last thurs
They already patched it from what i heard. so whatever
“customers”, LOL, a customer who take and don’t pay for it, it’s better off without them
This such a non story.
I’ve lost count of how many Nintendo games that have used this process and they all get hacked in the end.
Breaking protection on Nintendo games is actually the shallow end of the pool.
well it just goes to show that pokemon now has become racist starting with black and white if you know what i mean
cracker nerds will love this chanllenge.
and I say better having them spend their time doing those things thanmakign viruses >_<
I don’t even get how they WOULD prevent exp gains. what it forces you to connect to an internet server from time to time? otherwise I see no way to make software do such a thing….how does it “detect” that it’s pirated? Isn’t that what proper piracy cracks are for?
I hope someone picks up the challenge of clearing the game without exp 🙂
Anyone remember “Foreign thieves! Die!!!”.
Does it make it OK if they themselves are the pirates?
I believe that those who blame foreigners for pirating Japanese games have no idea what they’re saying.
When a game is set for release in Japan, the pirates abroad do not necessarily affect Japanese sales. Because these pirates were never inside the expected and intended release zone.
However, those who live in the release zone and pirate the software do affect the sales. I’m not defending the pirates, it’s just that the blame foreigners receive for the decline of the Japanese manga and game industries seems misplaced and no truth has been truly been seen.
You expected any less from the scum at 2ch? Hypocrisy, racism and elitism all tend to go hand-in-hand.
And then a few days later a patch was released that fixed everything.
The End
I would think you guys would use some hot picture of the BW heroine…
That means no Moemon or Touhoumon Black and White as well? Those hacks are wonderfully fun. What are you going to do about THAT Nintendo?
Isn’t it ironic they were bashing us just a while ago for pirating manga? When Greek meets Greek I guess.
what is the problem? just us the AP patch really easy just search pokemon black white patch on google
This is actually a better way to fight piracy than online dependency. Damn Blizzard for taking away LAN connections. You fuckers just ruined StarCraft 2.
Only it never ever works.
Gotta buy ’em all!
Fuck you nintendo for helding back the MOEmon. (It’s not only a play on words, google it if you don’t know what I’m talking about!)
Anyone else see this and immediately think “Super Challenge Mode”?
It’ll be a while before that happens bro. But you can keep looking.
>_<; kay I'm a girl so please don't call me "bro" and I would be happy with just the actual rom at the moment though others have stated that there already english patched like HG and SS were for the menus and stuff…It's just kind of upsetting me that I can't find it and yet theres talk all over the place saying that people have it working and stuff. TT_TT someone please help!
People have gotten past the XP and purposeful freezing with a patched version, but there is NO ENGLISH PATCH as of this date (I’ve heard estimates of ~2 weeks for people to translate).
Also, one thing I’ll say just in case you or someone else decides to do this. If you try to use an AR code to encounter whatever pokemon you want in the wild… a few certain pokemon will give your screen a blue-and-black “Error: please restart” message in japanese when captured. I don’t know which ones though.
The Hex-Edit to fix the Anti-Pirate features didn’t take even half a day after the game’s release. Weeping pirates? I think not!
Game got patched within 2 hours of it being released. 2ch just doesn’t know where to look *points at the “dirty foreigners”*
Good work Nintendo. *high fives*
If like the game so much, just bloody buy it.
They can’t. That’s why they bloody pirate it.
Yeah! Good work at failing to make piracy prevention that did anything but create some lulz-tastic posts on 2chan!
ROFL.. so 2ch users are crying because of piracy here, but when it’s manga that never gets translated overseas then that’s a big no-no.
fkn hypocrits
You expect any less from them?
This article pretty much proves why DRM is a waste of time, cracked in less then 24 hours.
there is already a patch/fix for this
This is true.
And it was Game Freak, not Nintendo.
Most of us in the West are upset that they required most of the informational sites to stop posting pictures that would otherwise promote sales of the game. I would imagine the images would increase sales of the game rather than hurt them.
And this was Nintendo, not Game Freak.
It’s pretty obvious that someone is trolling fansites.
Owned
I was checking out the game.
New pokemon seems interesting!
It’d be a nice change.
Isn’t Pokemon for kids? ಠ_ಠ
ISN’T manga for kids?
Well, I mean, let’s not generalize things too much. First off, Pokemon didn’t start as a manga (though maybe you’re referring to the overpowering anime theme the games seem to have adopt). Secondly, cartoons, comics and video games started off as a market for kids but today you can see many series marketed towards more mature audiences. (you probably wouldn’t find a kid reading Elfen Lied or Higurashi).
Actually, all three markets started for adults.
Isn’t hentai for kids?
Wait…
i see wat u did there Schrobby.
+1
Aren’t kids for pedos?
Wait….
QUIET YOU!!!
lol, my dangoro is lvl 30
well, not all that use roms are pirates.
For instance, mothers usually buy the games for their kids, however they also have an R4, iT2, TTDS, or whatever card so their kids carry all their games in just one card.
The reason being: KIDS LOSE THINGS. So instead of carrying over 20 games to swap in the plane, road trip, dentist appointment or wherever, they leave all roms in the microSD. It’s cheaper than buying the same game all over again. And since you don’t swap cards so often, the slot release spring lasts longer.
Also, it’s good to try roms of new games before buying. If the game is good, we buy to support the creator. But if the game is bad… well, it’s a good thing $40 weren’t wasted on a bad game. $80~$120 in my country per game.
So yes, it’s bad if you play the backup without owning the game, but it’s good to try the game or to keep the originals safe while playing their backups from their crack card.
In a way, it’s a matter of perspective.
excuse me… your argument is retarded.
almost nobody buys the original game after played it.
Also mothers are not the regular R4 consumers.
Yeah sure we buy Flashcards to store our games.
Fake news is Fake news indeed.
The most hilarious part is that it was immediately cracked so there was literally no point in Nintendo doing it, unless they somehow wanted to prove how innefectual at preventing piracy they are.
Considering 2ch’s reactions they did it for the lulz.
This problem was patched like the day after it came out.
Lol, first comment about patch was removed apparently.
Pretty normal. Dragon Quest 4/5/6/9/Joker 2 had the same tricks. And all of them were cracked within a week.
we steal rather than pay for it legitimately and making illegal copies…how dare you try and stop us
lol
it was patched a few hours after the ROM leak.
nice try nintendo and go home with that.
thats the way it goes, there is always a skilled hacker going to the rescue
LOL at the “aren’t we customers, too?” bit~
We Gaijin are customers, too. Take that, 2ch!
Has it even been translated?! (that would be some serious effort)
And they get mad when we pirate manga? lol.
YOU PIRATE MANGA!? I HOPE YOU GET HEAD CANCER YOU FUCK!
Well, if reading manga online makes me a pirate, so be it. I was more referring to the downloading of it, which I don’t(I need the space)
Yeah, talk about hypocrisy…
But it’s prolly okay ’cause they’re not “gaijin…”
lol
Nice job! *thumbs up*
Piracy finnaly being sucessfully expurged.
Also,
“ Doesn’t Nintendo think us pirates are customers too!?”
Pirates costumers? This is wrong in so many levels. They download for free and crack the game, how can they be cosumers? lolwat.
Oh, btw, I dropped everything pokemon related after the 151.
They buy the game and share them in the internet.
Isn’t that customers too?
Just wait until haxers hack the nintendo protection.
Nothing protection codes are secure than those genius haxers.
Hey,they even can crack the so-called “uncrackable” PS3 console and why nintendo protection think can stops them?
PS3 isn’t cracked. It’s LV2 is cracked, but the LV1 is still intact.
actually they are nintendo customers, from a point of view.
they did actually buy an original DS from nintendo, that or they buy one used, in which case they arent nintendo customers.
What success? As noted above, the ROM was patched in hours… which I understand is pretty typical. This really isn’t much of a news story… at least the AP for Love Plus had a humourous angle.
It was patch and we got EXP already.
I did not know that, lolFail.
Well, maybe sony Ps3 is the only successful so far.
“Wow, it’s great that Nintendo is fighting piracy. By the way, I’m too old for Pokemon and anyone who liked it after Red and Blue is stupid and lame.”
Jackass.
I love anons, they take your words, change them and spit’em back at you, to make what you said look like offensive and stupid.
We love you too.
… Carnally.
Jackass.
log in into account just took long time,I just go with Anonymous.
“I’m a raging faggot.”
You’re a raging faggot.
I understand those sentiments. Soulsilver was worth it though.
Shit, this is gonna take a lot of sand attacks…
Just kidding, I’d buy the game legitimately if I wanted it, but none of this generation’s pokemon are even any good.
mmh thinking about it:
by not gaining exp it makes the game a lot more challenging (one of the reasons i stopped playing PKMN it was too easy)
id get a pirated version for the lols of a game where you are suposed to level up/gaine strenght but you cant (takes strategy to a whole new level cause you might have to adjust your team for every opponent thus you will need several pokemon so you might run out of money from buying balls)
the thing with not being able to advance in the story is a far worse so i would try to fix it 😀
[quote]by not gaining exp it makes the game a lot more challenging[/quote]
More FEAR critters?
Does that matter? This almost a complete reboot; None of the older pokemon are included in these releases. Don’t be an elitist.
All of the existing Pokemon are in the games. You have to get the National Dex before you can get them, but then you can transfer EVERYTHING from Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, Heart Gold, and Soul Silver into Black and White via the Dream World.
Haha, that thing was so epic… they should have found a way to incorporate him in later games…
No MissingNo though, and that was the best pokemon.
Everyone has elitist ideals.
Reason for what exactly?
that’s not a freaking reason.
Yeah they are, you just gotta wait till you get the national dex.
Then just… don’t play it?
That makes sense. No time for that.
“I can’t get any XP! Doesn’t Nintendo think us pirates are customers too!?”
If someone comes into your store, takes 2 bags of chips and a pack of beer then runs out without paying, are they your customer?
derp
“Nintendo’s getting too serious!”
Pokemon is serious business. ^_^
Bitches don’t know about my Lv100 Umbreon.
Your metaphor is completely off.
“If someone snuck into your movie theatre for free, watched the movie, then left, are they your customer?”
Makes a lot more sense then stealing physical property from a store.
“Your metaphor is completely off.”
Ironic, because it’s called an analogy.
Of course, the rationalizations from pirates… it doesn’t matter how much rationalization about something being software they come up with. It’s thievery. Yes, it is, stop lying to yourselves, it’s pathetic. You’ll at least gain a bit of respect by just admitting “Yes, I’m a pirate, I can’t afford them… I’m not proud of it, but it’s what I do.” And the logic of borrowing from a friend? Then borrow it. Testing it out? Then stop playing after the first couple hours or go pay for it like any other demo.
Whatever the rationalization, buy the stupid thing if you enjoy it.
Yeah but if they bought popcorn and a drink then what?
Done that -.-
You mad? Fuck yeah, I would if I could.
Fuck yeah I would…
You wouldn’t download a car…
The only thing I can figure he meant is that they spread it’s notoriety for them.
Indeed. It was patched a few hours after the ROM was released.
A tad slow on the news there, Artefact.
(Also, level 52 エンブオー, 51 ヤナッキー, 51 ゼブライカ right now. I’m curious about everyone else’s progress so far.)
At the desert area, pokemon levels are around 30
Just grinding away right now. And tank god emulators can speed up progress. Some battles drag forever.
Nintendo needs to try harder. I mean it got patched in under a day of its release?
No you’re not customers you essentially stole it being a customer implies paying.
But still i find it funny that nintendo did this.
You are right.
We know almost everybody have one or two or more pirated programs or archive(music or videos on tv in any format) in the computer.
But why would think himself as “costumers” if don’t pay for it?
yeah, they’re not really customers, so such a reaction is cynic… I doubt they won’t get the way to overcome that eventually, the big question here is if Love Plus gamers will do it too LOL
lol @ at fggts taking the comment seriously…
“I can’t get any XP! Doesn’t Nintendo think us pirates are customers too!?”
was clearly sarcasm…
no, i really do believe that there are people on 2ch dumb enough to actually mean that X)
Why complain? There is going to be a patch… and if there isn’t. Just save your money and support at least 1 original game for once.
You can call your friends pirates for once. Hehe
I don’t know what is sadder, people(who are not 12 yrs ols) playing pokemon, People bothering to pirate pokemon, Pirates who expect 100% functionallity, or Nintendo going to this extent to protect pokemon.
“gotta catch em’ all” my hairy white ass. It was a popular fad once, now quit flogging the dead hors.
P.S. on a side note, the colectable card game was more entertaining than the games or anime.
You mention the anime, guess what the manga is loads more serious. The anime ruined it all, because it led to the overall “For Kids” idea in people’s heads, including Nintendo themselves.
First of all, stealing implies the act of removing possession of certain goods from someone else, not using goods that do not belong to you. If I were to buy a stolen cellphone, I may be naive, but not a thief.
Likewise, if I were to copy the contents of a certain disk, I do not deprive the original owner of anything. No corporation has ever lost anything to piracy. And no, most pirates wouldn’t buy your product even if they couldn’t DL. Just look at the damn [url=http://w3.bsa.org/globalstudy/]statistics[/url]. It makes perfect sense if you think about it.
Oh, but you know what really causes lost sales? Punishing your fanbase. While their certainly are cheap people who plainly refuse to buy what they could, most pirates do it because they can only spend so much on entertainment. The bills won’t pay themselves.
Pirating isn’t equal to stealing. Get that through your thick head and maybe we’ll make progress.
say what?
It’s not morally agreeable if it’s still an offense.
And most pirates would never buy the game, even if they could afford it.
No… I pirate movies all the time but you’re just trying to make it seem morally agreeable. You’re stealing, if you didn’t pirate the game they’d have your money. You took something of value without paying. I’ve no problem with that really as I do it too, just don’t bother trying to redefine it all.
“Pirating” is copyright infringement, which is a civil offense. “Stealing” involves depriving somebody of their personal property, which is a criminal offense. They’re completely different crimes.
funny how 2ch bitches about damn gaijans stealing their manga while complaining about not being treated fairly as video game pirates ?
Well, most of the people who were complaining about foreign manga sharing sites were delighted to hear of this, you know. The majority of 2channelers are most opposed to pirating of console games, especially DS releases- as they’ve been beginning to enter the mainstream.
Yet they posted this on 2ch as a joke?
I’m pretty sure that those 2channers who do pirate manga didn’t dare to speak up in that thread.
Also, it’s not like every single person in 2chan share their views. Same for 4channers. :\
2ch is the biggest forum in the world IIRC.
People vary and you can be sure Artefact only chooses the flame-worthy comments to translate.
Don’t assume that all 2ch users are the same.
Isn’t it funny that whenever a japanese NDS game comes out, it has 2CH on the end, implying it came from 2ch. They are just as big of pirates as any other place, at least we admit it.
…making you act like one of them, discounting you to being a quasi-2channer, nothing gained or changed. Is that your way on how to handle the situation at hand? I don’t think so.
Well why not? They obviously think all gaijins are the same. So why can’t we do the same? It’s only fair ya know.
It’s 2ch, what do you expect? ^_^
I was thinking the exact same thing. Just hypocrites.
2ch… those tards never learn.
Yeah that pretty much explains it all right there.
And to increase teh rage, did you know that a patched version is out that lets you level up and everything?
Feelsgoodmang.jpg
Patched black myself, blargh.
Playing patched Pokemon Black right now. Loving the fresh start of the series.
link please?
gotta love the haxors.
I will just wait 2 weeks for the Action Replay code that removes this
“We can’t get any experience at all… a bit like our lives really!”
I laughed hard as hell upon reading this lulzy sentence from their comments…
good luck wating asshole.
“lolimon” already exists sort of. While hacking my own pokemon game using pokemon emerald I found that somebody had hacked firered and replaced all the pokemon with various anime styled little girls. No pedoballs though. Sorry I forgot what the game was called but it shouldnt take long to find on the pokemon gba hacking forums.
how many different terms are there for pedophiles? there were what, 5 ball types in the first game, we need to have each ball called something diffferent based on different terms for pedos.
but because pedoball is so great, that would be the masterball replacement. or it could be called the rayball
If your Loli school girl beat’s his Loli candy girl then your happy?
I dunno, “pedoballs” has a similar ring to it, but sounds sooo much funnier!
do you use loliballs to catch them?
Lolimon, gotta catch them all.
i want it hacked, replace all the pokemon with lolimon, wheres that hack
This offers plenty of chances for experience, in game hacking.
Honestly don’t this schemes only add to the fun in hacking these games?
“We can’t get any experience at all… a bit like our lives really!”
2ch guy got it. ^_^
*Looks at the Hex coding patches for both games that have been there almost right after the rom was released*
Wait I thought only kids play video games in Japan?
Such blatant Hypocrisy.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Nintendo makes the 3DS much harder to pirate.
Well, I’ll wait for the PSP2 anyhow.
Screw you Jeedwi. I was supposed to say that. :V
Wait a second now. Reading scanned manga is a horrendous crime but pirating games is alright? Hypocritical idiots…
I’m 12 years old and what is this?
im sure we all have our ancient mews somwhere.
Since the time when poke-trading cards were all the rage….
I feel kinda old now. o.O
More importantly… it’s surprising for how long the Pokemon franchise has been alive.
Not all devices were affected, rendering anything Nintendo tried pointless from the start. Plus this is 3 days old already.
Comment system is flaky, second attempt.
Nintendo vs pirates…
Nintendo: 200pts
pirates: 0pts
GG sir!
FFS! I’m sorry, all I’m hearing here is “WHAAA, I want to play for free, the programmers, artists, computer engineers and game designers are selfish and stupid and mean! Why won’t the world accommodate a lazy, selfish thief like me?! I’ll show them, when someone else way smarter than me just hax this! …I’m so alone… “
HA!! what a shame those poor 2ch fuckers they’re like dirt to me besides all my japanese friends know the difference between gaitaku(my own little nickname for us foreign anime lovers) and normal otaku If they can even be called that they were probably spoutin that same “go die” bullshit during that whole scantalation fiasco but look at them now fortunately I,m the bigger man and instead of reciprocating I,m just gonna shake my head at them
u mad
That’s what those pirates get fuckin thieves. I can’t stand them because they claim to be fans of the franchise yet they are stealing and not supporting the company who makes these great games. I hope it only gets worser and their entire ds cracks or something.
cry like a bitch at night?
My DS cracks? Wow. Pokemon is only playable on emulators with speed up, otherwise it gets boring so fucking fast…
Its pokemon if u played one u played em all. if u like it just buy it and dont complain when your ”free” copy has restrictions its just a demo, now go buy the real thing
Pkmn is unplayable without emulators. The game is just too fucking slow.
I don’t know what these people are thinking. It’s definitely not the first time that a company has done something like this, and pirates sure as hell aren’t customers. If you got it for free by illegal means, don’t start complaining when the company decies not to support you.