how the hell did cracking software get advertised in mainstream pc gaming magazines back in the day?

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Anonymous Sun May 26 20:59:45 2019 No.5609669 [Reply] [Original]

how the hell did cracking software get advertised in mainstream pc gaming magazines back in the day?

>>	Anonymous Sun May 26 21:07:56 2019 No.5609689 Cracks were huge in the 80s. There were published books for defeating many C64 protections where you had to do the steps yourself.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 26 21:10:52 2019 No.5609696 >>5609689 yeah but that was euro shit that nobody in their right mind would pay for. This is in pc gamer of January 1995

Anonymous Sun May 26 21:18:39 2019 No.5609712

>>5609669
>how
The company that made the software would design and ad and pay the magazine to print it. It was about as complicated as posting in one of those zoomer threads where you put a few pictures into a template to show how retarded and desperate for attention you are.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 26 23:34:04 2019 No.5609994 >>5609669 The DMCA wasn't a thing yet.

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