Also as far as I can see he was just cracking it to build a serial generator... I'm not sure that's even illegal to distribute, since there is no copyright vio

Also as far as I can see he was just cracking it to build a serial generator... I'm not sure that's even illegal to distribute, since there is no copyright violation. There are some places that forbid breaking DRM, but telling other people how to break DRM is even weaker.