Whois & Analysis for crackhub.org

A key generator (key-gen) is a computer program that generates a product licensing key, such as a serial number, necessary to activate for use of a software application.

Keygens may be legitimately distributed by software manufacturers for licensing software in commercial environments where software has been licensed in bulk for an entire site or enterprise, or they may be distributed illegitimately in circumstances of copyright infringement or software piracy.

Illegitimate key generators are typically distributed by software crackers in the warez scene and demoscene.

These keygens often play "Keygen music", which may include the genres dubstep or chiptunes in the background and have artistic user interfaces.

Free software or libre software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions.

Free software is a matter of liberty, not price: users—individually or in cooperation with computer programmers—are free to do what they want with their copies of a free software (including profiting from them) regardless of how much is paid to obtain the program.

Computer programs are deemed free insofar as they give users (not just the developer) ultimate control over the first, thereby allowing them to control what their devices are programmed to do.

Product activation is a license validation procedure required by some proprietary computer software programs.

Product activation prevents unlimited free use of copied or replicated software.

Unactivated software refuses to fully function until it determines whether it is authorized to fully function.

Activation allows the software to stop blocking its use.

An activation can last "forever", or it can have a time limit, requiring a renewal or re-activation for continued use.

Software cracking (known as "breaking" in the 1980s) is the modification of software to remove or disable features which are considered undesirable by the person cracking the software, especially copy protection features (including protection against the manipulation of software, serial number, hardware key, date checks and disc check) or software annoyances like nag screens and adware.

A patch is a set of changes to a computer program or its supporting data designed to update, fix, or improve it.

This includes fixing security vulnerabilities and other bugs, with such patches usually being called bugfixes or bug fixes, and improving the usability or performance.

Although meant to fix problems, poorly designed patches can sometimes introduce new problems (see software regressions).

In some special cases updates may knowingly break the functionality or disable a device, for instance, by removing components for which the update provider is no longer licensed.