Whois & Analysis for soft4crack.com

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 developed and distributed illegitimately in circumstances of copyright infringement or software piracy.

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

A product key, also known as a software key, serial key or activation key, is a specific software-based key for a computer program.

It certifies that the copy of the program is original.

Software cracking (known as "breaking" mostly in the 1980s) is an act of removing copy protection from a software.

Copy protection can be removed by applying a specific crack.

A crack can mean any tool that enables breaking software protection, a stolen product key, or guessed password.

Cracking software generally involves circumventing licensing and usage restrictions on commercial software by illegal methods.

These methods can include modifying code directly through disassembling and bit editing, sharing stolen product keys, or developing software to generate activation keys.

Examples of cracks are: applying a patch or by creating reverse-engineered serial number generators known as keygens, thus bypassing software registration and payments or converting a trial/demo version of the software into fully-functioning software without paying for it.

Software cracking contributes to the rise of online piracy where pirated software is distributed to end-users through filesharing sites like BitTorrent, One click hosting (OCH), or via Usenet downloads, or by downloading bundles of the original software with cracks or keygens.

In the BitTorrent file distribution system, a torrent file or meta-info file is a computer file that contains metadata about files and folders to be distributed, and usually also a list of the network locations of trackers, which are computers that help participants in the system find each other and form efficient distribution groups called swarms.

Torrent files are normally named with the extension.