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Piracy. Programs that generate activation codes for proprietary software are called keygens. They usually come with interesting musical accompaniments.

• megous 3y ago
  Keygens may or may not facilitate piracy, but they're not themselves piracy. This is just some ridiculous NPM policy. What will be next? Cracks?
• distortionfield 3y ago
  Yeah what was it about keygens always having the most unhinged synth soundtracks
  • franky47 3y ago
    It sparked a whole new genre, Demoscene. I miss those days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene
  • NamTaf 3y ago
    It's part of the demoscene culture, which overlaps a lot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene
    • Etrnl_President 3y ago
      https://files.scene.org/ https://files.scene.org/
• dyingkneepad 3y ago
  > musical accompaniments Can someone please explain this to me?
  • Suppafly 3y ago
    back in the old days, keygens were a way for hacking groups to show off, so they had cool graphics and played music.
    • namtab00 3y ago
      | back in the old days Thank you for my daily memento morì.