Beyond Compare 2 cracks

[Craig]

This post isn't directed towards legitimate BC users, registered or not. We appreciate everyone's support, and will happily give tech support, answer questions, and listen to suggestions from anyone.

This is coming up a lot more often than I expected, so I'm going to be blunt:

Beyond Compare 2 has an extremely generous demo mode. The only functional limitation is the lack of plug-in viewers. The time limit only counts days you've actually started BC, and still allows 45 day of use. An infrequent user could easily try it for 6 months before it expired. Use BC without a crack first, and if you like it, please pay for it.

If you have used a crack do not post in the forums or email support asking about problems you're encountering. There are a lot of bad cracks that don't work, or never worked, and can affect your ability to install a legitimate license. We do keep track of what's available, so I know what the various side effects are. Any forum posts that mention them will be deleted without response.

[jdmarch]

I find it mind-boggling and heart-wrenching that anyone would want to use a crack of a reasonably priced, individually crafted program like BC. The value that Tim and Craig have given us in BC is so incomparably beyond the price of the program, that to steal their work is the moral equivalent of stealing a kindergarten teacher's lunch, or of giving huge tax cuts to billionaires while cutting benefits for those who cannot find jobs.

Grrrr...

[armsys]

Craig,

I am saddened by your post on software privacy. Pricing at $30, it's inexpensive and saves users a great deal of time and troubles. It isn't the kind of software used only once a week or a month. In most cases, it's used daily to compare and synchronize files. In addtion, it includes a script language helping users automate their daily synchronization processes. As of today, BC is the best synchronization solution I have ever found around the world.

You may consider to enforce a forum policy that only registered users can be allowed to access the forum.

Yeah, I buy software occasionally but i was planning on cracking this one. It's only because I'm going to use it so infrequently that I would never pay for it but i found it today and it works for the simple need that I have. Instead of uninstalling it and attempting to reinstall and then using it one time every five months, I say crack it! yeah i'm a dick. meanwhile, those who use it on a regular basis should totally pay the thirty for it. crackin will always be a fact but i hope you all make your cash back on it and anyone who cracks it and then asks for support is surely a dolt. (BTW, I distributed the link to the app for a dev team and THEY will probably buy it! does that justify my crack if i send twenty license purchases your way?!) hehe Great program, anyways!

[jdmarch]

Hey, cracker, I suggest that you re-read Craig's post. You can use BC on 45 different days, spread out over a long time, before it expires. So if you really are going to use it as infrequently as you claim, demo mode will satisfy all your needs. And if you're going to use it more often, then you really should buy it. (And IMHO, once you start to use it, you won't want to stop.) Of course it's good to recommend it, but the best recommendation is the one that so many of us here can make "After using BC for just a few hours, I rushed to buy it to support this great program."

[armsys]

<font color="blue">Anonymous,

I'm sorry for your post which you disgraces yoruself. By your very own wording, you convince everyone you're not a professional. For $30, you sold out your soul and character. How's your feeling if someone steal your product with exactly the same argument you posted here?

On the other hand, BC isn't a simple piece of utility software for comparing files in two folders. If you use once every 5 months, then you use of 1% of its power. You're, in fact, wasting your valuable time to install/uninstall on your valuable hard disk space. Only your imagination is your own limit in utilizing it because it can be fully automated through scripts. For example, amongst innumerous applications, with BC, I can reduce the backup time for my iPAQ and Jornada from 1 hour to 3 minutes! That's enormous saving.

I'm sure you'll pay $30 to Scooter for the BC2 :cool:. You won't regret every penny spent in BC2.

Armstrong </font>

I just downloaded beyond compare from PC World installed it and it wants me to enter a reg code. HMMM I haven't even tried it yet!!! Whats up!!!!!!

[Tim]

Sorry about that! It looks like PC World is hosting an old copy of BC. :( I'll try to get that updated. Please download the current version from our site.

[Ken]

The only time I played around like this, was when I was waiting for my previous company to go through all the approvals for the purchase for the entire SW group. It was one of the 1.x versions, and only had a 30 day trial. Someone showed me BC, and a few of us were using BC for a week or two. We filled out the paperwork to make the purchase, and I think it took about 2-3 months, maybe more, before the PO was OK'd. I had stopped using BC, but finally couldn't do without it. So, I think I uninstalled it, and went into some system files and scrubbed its presence.
I was very happy when the PO was approved and we got our group key.

[twestley]

BC2 is a really great program. Using the demo capability convinced me to buy it. I was even more impressed when the demo lasted longer than I expected because of the way it counted usage days instead of calendar days. When I discovered that, I immediately bought it. No cracking for me.

[jimkress]

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Please keep posts civil. -- Craig

[jimkress]

Why should we be civil to a criminal?

I just don't get it. This is a very reasonably priced software product that has a very liberal preview policy. It's very cheap, when considering what this software can do!!
What value is there in expending any energy to try and crack it, when you've got 45 free days to use it?

The problem for me and BC is that i hate programs with annual update fees. I have not problem paying more for a lifetime update license. Never use cracked programs though, it is my ...policy ;)

[Erik]

We don't have any annual update fees. We give free upgrades to all minor versions (ie 2.x) and bargain upgrades to major versions (ie 3).

Also, you are never required to upgrade. We offer continuing support to 1.x licensed users.

I had been looking for a program to sync my data directories with a backup directory on a second drive. BC was one that Google brought to me. I tried others and then I tried BC and thought this was the one for me, but I wasn't sure immediately. I better give it a few more days. Well, a couple weeks went by and I thought, "Oh oh, I should back up these files." but I thought BC was probably just about done with it's free time. What? I still have 30 some days left? I figured it must be a bug, or maybe I DID register it. I run some non profit websites and some software allow me to use their free for non profits and perhaps this was one of them. But reading through this forum I discover that it was your very liberal grant of free time I was the benefit of. So, I'm going over to the registrar with my Master Card in hand. Many thanks. I do have a newby question I haven't been able to find an answer for, but I'll post it on an appropriate forum after I've registered. many thanks!
Rik Pierce

[Liangjinhui]

It isn't a bug, it count the days you use it actually.
eg. If you use it twice a week, and you can evaluate more than 15 weeks.

It is a good idea for other soft to study!

I just don't get it. ... What value is there



I've helped jail or deport a number of these scum, and had the misfortune of learning how they think. It's a self-centred mentality that colours how one views the world. Cost/benefit does not generally enter into their minds. If the software were free but required anonymous registration, they'd still crack it.

Do not try to find logic in the thinking unless you examine everything with "number one" at the core. :(

Humans are illogical, irrational creatures that use logic to justify their nutty decisions. :/

[Raymond]

To The Scooters:

I had a look at several folder- and file-compare programs for general system maintenance. Very quickly, I realized that BC fully satisfies my requirements. And it's very reasonably priced.
I decided to inform you guys that I purchased a user license within 4 hours from downloading my trial version. I like to think that I spent the money, not because I am stupid, which I have proven in many other ways, and not because I'm nice and decent, which I have proven in so many other ways, but because by balancing what I give with what I get, I can avoid being a parasite.
And maybe the fact that I need some of the plugins helped a little...
Thanks for making a piece of software as nice, useful and fun to use as Beyond Compare!