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Developer's Corner / Re: Mixing Code Licences - AKA let's bake a program

« on: December 15, 2015, 04:58 PM »

While I'm researching the links above, I'm gonna post the Nuget pages and respective licenses I'm using for reference:

ZedGraph, license. Major component of my software. I don't know if Microsoft Charts or whatever can handle what I'm doing. I'm switching over to Live Charts, which is MIT.
MahApps Metro, license. Visually stimulating. Replaceable with another theme I guess.
HtmlAgilityPack, license. Used for data scraping web pages. Really want to keep this one but can replace if necessary.
MoreLINQ's DistinctBy for C#, license. Pretty darn necessary for filtering data I am manipulating. I'd have a very difficult time without it. Managed to replace this module with a few lines of code!
CryptorEngine, I can't find the actual license for this one, but I see it's widely used. Used in conjunction with other of my own encryption algorithms. Not 100% necessary but I'd prefer having it. Gonna nix this. My own obfuscation of files is enough.

I suppose I could find a different, more WPF friendly chart plotting control with a MSPL license, and do away with CryptorEngine, and HTML Parser here uses the BSD license, so I'm kind of sure that works with the MSPL stuff. SparrowChart seems to be another option as well, and it's also under the MSPL. AngleSharp is another HTML parsing program that has an MIT license! Live Charts also looks very promising with a MIT license!

Looks like I have everything legally meshing with each other now! Hooray!

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Developer's Corner / Mixing Code Licences - AKA let's bake a program

« on: December 15, 2015, 09:13 AM »

Greetings everyone,

I'm here to consult the experts on software licenses to make sure there's nothing conflicting with them. I use libraries/components/objects whatever-you-want-to-call-them that are under various licenses: The LGPL 2.1 license, the Microsoft Public License, and the Apache License Version 2.0. My question is if I can put these together in one program and distribute it?

I've tried deciphering the legalese but all that I ended up getting out of it all was a headache. I don't plan on selling this software either, but I also would prefer not to make it open source as it uses encryption.

Thanks in advance for any help!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Email Remover - An Auto-Responder Loop Solution

« on: December 13, 2015, 11:17 AM »

Both participants have their auto-responder on and for some unknown reason, one of them sends the other an email and leaves for the weekend or something only to find thousands of emails on the server when they get back.

-Asudem (December 12, 2015, 10:27 AM)

Oh Damn, now that's funny! I may have to give it a shot sometime.

But seriously, I've been running an Exchange server for a dozen or so years, and am quite happy with it. However I've no idea how ours would respond to this - rather unique - situation. I am definitely going to have to try it sometime -(most likely I'll pit my home lab against the office)- to see what will happen.

-Stoic Joker (December 13, 2015, 11:08 AM)

What usually happens is some company shoots one of our out-of-office employees an email, the auto-responder sends back to them and we get one of those automated "Thank you for your message, we'll get back to you when..." in return and the email cycle of doom starts. I usually deal with this once about every two months. The REAL solution is to not use the server's provided out of office and create an out of office rule within outlook, but that, sadly, is above some of the skill levels of our employees to make work.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Email Remover - An Auto-Responder Loop Solution

« on: December 13, 2015, 09:19 AM »

About not having an Exchange Server: ignorance==bliss

Now I am not familiar with the software from Network Solutions, but do run my own Postfix mail server on a "headless" Linux machine (with Webmin) for years. Before that vPOP3 (Windows) and even then it was already easy to delete mail directly on the server. That left with me the impression that all mail server software makers have this functionality built-in.

Postfix is a mature and battle hardened mail server with lots(!) of options to configure if you want to. Making a policy to get rid of such messages is no problem. There are a lot of add-ons that make the creation of such a policy much easier if you are not a fan of command-line configuration.

-Shades (December 13, 2015, 09:11 AM)

Truth be told, I've never worked with an exchange server, but Network Solutions has caused quite a few headaches. It's older version of it's web-mail portal allows you to delete emails from the server, but it's view pane only allows you to select up to 100 emails at a time. Even filtered it would take a very long time to delete all the emails. Network Solutions DID fix this eventually, allowing you to see and select all emails given a specific filter, but only for newly created email addresses. The older emails are stuck with the old version of the web-portal.

Hmmm, Postfix is something I'll definitely look into. Thanks!

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: Wanted: better desktop icon grouping system

« on: December 13, 2015, 09:08 AM »

This thread has me like a kid a candy store, I don't know what program to try first! These are all wonderful suggestions!

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General Software Discussion / Email Remover - An Auto-Responder Loop Solution

« on: December 12, 2015, 10:27 AM »

Greetings,

So if your company lives in the dark ages like mine and doesn't have an exchange server, there's probably a good chance you've seen once or twice an infinite auto-responder loop. Both participants have their auto-responder on and for some unknown reason, one of them sends the other an email and leaves for the weekend or something only to find thousands of emails on the server when they get back.

The solution, as I've found, is Email Remover. What this does is it allows you to delete emails directly from the server without having to download them all into Outlook or your mail client and delete them manually. Our company uses Network Solutions and it's delete-mail-from-the-server features are very, very lacking. With this tool, I can find the average size of the auto-responded emails and only delete them.

It's a nifty utility for those of us with stone-age email systems and if you're ever dealing with a mass email attack, I'd highly recommend this freeware!

Please feel free to recommend any other similar software in this thread too!

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Feature Request - Keep download count, remove file

« on: December 12, 2015, 09:08 AM »

If you want to remove the download, but keep the number if times it was downloaded. Why not just turn the link into a string of plain text. The DL number wouldn't need to be held/tracked by the system as it would just be a static number so you could do something like this:

Live Link v1.30 downloaded xxx times
Text Old v1.20 downloaded xxx times
Text Old v1.10 downloaded xxx times
Text Old v1.00 downloaded xxx times

Then you have a version popularity history at a glance that doesn't require any moving parts.

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Yes I'm a bit of a hypocrite, I work in technology yet really like low tech solutions.

-Stoic Joker (December 12, 2015, 06:53 AM)

Oh no, I completely agree, this is is the "common sense" solution I couldn't see sitting in front of me because I was just thinking too hard

The only thing is, and it's more of a minor inconvenience than a real problem, if I upload a new version of the program, I have to modify my post, attach the program, post it, copy the newly generated link, modify the post again, then include the hyperlink to the new version.

Thanks for the solution!

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Site/Forum Features / [RESOLVED] Feature Request - Keep download count, remove file

« on: December 12, 2015, 05:31 AM »

Greetings once again folks,

I've recently posted some software I'm continuing and have already had bug reports and feature enhancements flood in to make the program better than it was before. However, I notice people are still downloading older uploaded versions of my program that I upload here. My request is to be able to remove the file but keep the file name and download count in the attachments just to see a total of how many people have downloaded the program in all. I always think it's nice to see an accumulative view of how many people are actually using your program, and if I delete every older version I lose those statistics. Perhaps a feature to delete the file from the server and just strikeout the text which use to be the url to download it, and remove the hyperlink of course.

Please let me know if this might be something useful for users of the forum. Thanks!

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DC Member Programs and Projects / MFCRecorder - Continued

« on: December 11, 2015, 08:00 AM »

Greetings everyone,

I have recently gotten permission from the original author of MFCRecorder, AnonCapper, to modify his code and continue the MFCRecorder as I see fit...

If you are here to argue the moral issue of what this program does, please take a look at this thread which discusses in depth the legitimacy of downloading streams on a forum entirely dedicated to downloading streams. If this tool did not exist, a million other methods exist.

The thread will be quoted here as I also back what they say 100%:

Streaming media recorders (software capable of recording audio and video streams) such as Replay Media Catcher or WM Recorder are intended for use as personal archiving tools only. Please respect the rights of the copyright holders of any audio material you record.

If you like a broadcast you've recorded, please buy the media! Our web-site is not intended to be a replacement for the media stores, rather it allows you to listen/watch and make an educated purchase.

There are many good reasons to buy music videos, movies and video tutorials:

• You help support an artist, moviemaker, author, ...
• Your video files will be of the highest quality
• You'll sleep better knowing you did the right thing.

There are a lot of means to protect streaming media from illegal copying and distribution including password-protection and Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems.

You should also read the Terms of Service (ToS) carefully to make sure your stream recording will not violate it. Otherwise we strongly recommend not to make any recordings.

We can record TV shows with a video cassette recorder, DVR, computer TV and it is not considered illegal. Why stream recording of online TV broadcasts should be considered illegal then?

At the same time we do NOT support any illegal distribution of the recorded materials.

100% of video streams we know can be recorded using Screen capture software. We just try to describe a better approach so that our visitors don't waste their time and HD space.

P.S.: If you are a content owner/distributor and you want any information about stream recording from your web-site to be removed from stream-recorder.com or  all-streaming-media.com, please contact us. Please also make sure your visitors can easily find information prohibiting stream recording from your web-site.

-Stream Recorder

As of yet, the site (nsfw) which this program downloads streams has not contacted stream-recorder.com to prohibit streams from being downloaded.

Now, let's get to the program.

This is a continued release of AnonCapper's latest source code compiled into a binary. For changes between AnonCapper's release and mine, please see below.

Spoiler

Version 1.0.0.5

• Fixed infinite loop where if the site 404'd, would cause an infinite loop. It now checks every 30 seconds it if a 404 is detected.
• Added feature where you can double click the taskbar icon and the window will minimize, if minimized, it will bring the window back up.

Version 1.0.0.4

• If the timer gets a WebException, it tries again, FINALLY.
• Added the option to view what's going on in the FFMPEG window.

Version 1.0.0.3

• Fixed unhanded exception if a websocket returned null, or contained an empty list.
• Will now successfully end the GetServers function if the returned reply is null.
• Re-added the timer in addition to the manual model data menu item. This allows for unattended downloads.
• The timer is now 5 minutes instead of 30 seconds.

Version 1.0.0.2

• Removed changed parameters changed in 1.0.0.1 passed to FFMPEG. AnonCapper fixed this and I assumed it wasn't fixed.

Version 1.0.0.1

• Initial DonationCoder.Com release
• The 30 second timer has been replaced with a menu item to retrieve model data.
• An about box has been added, crediting the original author.
• WebClients have been replaced with HttpWebRequests to allow for smoother timeout recoveries
• Now informs user that the icon would go away in case the notify icon did not disappear after closing (such as a hanging thread)
• Changed parameters passed to FFMPEG, a personal preference.
• Compressed the executable with all the plugins into a single executable.

To-Do List:

Spoiler

• Add option to manually recheck the status of all listed users to reflect accurate statuses.
• Add a settings menu to change where the videos are saved and how they are named.
• Add model names to the record list instead of IDs, so people know who they auto record.
• (Slight possibility) Add support for Chaturbate in a separate tab.
• Add option to download latest FFMPEG and FFPLAY
• Add option to filter models by showing only the online models in the inclusion list.

Older versions, not available for download:

Spoiler

MFCRecorder - Continued. v1001.zip (575.42 kB - downloaded 46 times.)
MFCRecorder - Continued. v1002.zip (575.44 kB - downloaded 30 times.)
MFCRecorder - Continued. v1003.zip (583.62 kB - downloaded 72 times.)
MFCRecorder - Continued. v1004.zip (584.68 kB - downloaded 116 times.)
MFCRecorder - Continued. v1005.zip[Confused](579 KB - downloaded 1581 times.)

File Checksums (MD5):
803ff804f1fd3d40ea25414010becee2 *MFCRecorder.exe
04fe7d0d419c74bd897002fc1b840cc1 *Gat.Controls.AboutBox.dll
e90889ba62bdfec221d3544bf4bcb798 *WebSocket4Net.dll
366cd5572e467b3b06515cfb4ab036ad *Hardcodet.Wpf.TaskbarNotification.dll
31e73af0734f4328879c1d96cdc4658c *log4net.dll
1e027f28a39f21a5470a407ff4052876 *Newtonsoft.Json.dll

Visustotal scan of the most current version.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Continued software development?

« on: December 11, 2015, 12:14 AM »

I suggest if he's out of the woodwork you tie shoelaces and ask him if you can put that into the help menu / about or something so it travels with the code and avoids annoying Murphy's Law scenarios later.

-TaoPhoenix (December 10, 2015, 10:45 PM)

Ya know, I planned on doing that from the beginning before I even made that topic. Of course I want to give him credit and I want to cover my own butt too, lol.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Continued software development?

« on: December 10, 2015, 09:17 PM »

I apologize for the double reply, but the author of the original software just came out of the woodwork with this:

Hi guys,

Here is the lastest source code, http://www.filedropp...om/mfcrecordersource

Please feel free do do what you wish with it.

Enjoy

Does THIS give me permission? Or does he need to include a license? The author sent me a PM saying I may do whatever I wish with the code!

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Developer's Corner / Facebook & Twitter "Liked Image" downloading

« on: December 08, 2015, 09:50 PM »

Greetings,

So every day on the ride to and from work, I browse Facebook and Twitter and like images to download them later on my desktop at home. I manually go through and download every image I've liked, with some few exceptions but very few. My question is, how would I go about automating this, as access to liked items on Facebook requires you to be logged in.

Any directions folks can point me?

Much appreciated, thanks!

UPDATE: 12/10/15
So I plan on using TweetSharp and Facebook SDK for .NEt to help accomplish this. I don't know if AutoHotkey could provide a more elegant solution.

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: LOLCODE: a silly snack in a silly language

« on: December 07, 2015, 10:48 PM »

Greetings, and I am so excited to post my first snack request on the form! It's more of a challenge to anyone to learn a different coding language called LOLCODE

I want to see anything silly or useful this language can produce, and given that snacks are supposed to be fun and silly and only take a couple of hours, I'd like to see anything anyone can produce!

I will try every program posted in this thread!

Have fun!

EDIT: I just reread the "Read Me First" topic and I need to be specific. Based on the LOLCODE specs, I don't even know what I'd want... Hmmm... I got it! How about the user inputs a list, that list is passed to a function which sorts the array by name, returns it, and outputs it. A list-alphabetizer.

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General Software Discussion / Re: 4 tools to download Windows updates to a local archive

« on: December 07, 2015, 07:31 AM »

Thanks for sharing this info. I've used all these tools and I also find WSUS Offline Update to be the best of the bunch, but it's install process takes much, much longer it seems. I've never benchmarked it, but I've always wanted a tool which downloads windows updates so Windows update SEES THE UPDATES DOWNLOADED.

The native Windows Update utility seems to install the updates the fastest in my opinion, and since we mention slipstreaming, is there a nice tutorial on that too with something such as nLite? I also apologize in advance for anyone who wishes to slipstream Vista.

There is another tool, actually, for XP, which will download only the cumulative updates since SP3 to it's end of life without any duplicates and every file slipstreams correctly but I don't remember it off hand. I used it to update our Dell XP Install discs when someone at work creates a really big computer problem for me.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Creating your own Windows Drivers

« on: December 06, 2015, 09:46 AM »

You did get the message that that kind of drivers are (usually) written in C++, and not in C#, right ?

I don't get quite clear where the output of your webcam should end up, into Skype so you can view it remotely? All webcams I've seen (not that many though) offer some kind of software to watch remotely what's going on, what isn't good enough about that?
Or is it just another programming challenge you're after? For that itch we have NANY 2016, here at DC

-Ath (December 06, 2015, 09:33 AM)

Yes, I do understand that drivers are written in c++ and I have programmed in the language many moons ago and believe I can pick that bike up and start writing it again.

I believe webcamming should be a fun, interactive experience. Fully of flashy features and the ability to paste graphics and interfacing with with actual, live data. Let's say for example you do a google hangout with supporters of your project and you want the amount of currently donated campaign funds as a banner on your webcam that updates in real time. Manycam can not do this, but OBS can. As far as I know, there is no custom support to stream from OBS to google hangouts, and if there is, well, it's probably difficult for a novice. Selecting OBS as your webcam would alleviate such a problem. A one-click solution. My philosophy for creating programs is "see a need, fill a need", and I believe this would be something I would use on a regular basis and someone else out there might enjoy if they knew it existed.

... also yes this is one of my few NANY ideas, you caught me

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General Software Discussion / Creating your own Windows Drivers

« on: December 06, 2015, 09:08 AM »

Greetings,

I have been itching to create my own custom Windows driver for a while now and I wondered if anyone else had any experience with doing this? I'm looking at using VisualDDK to help me do this, but I just wanted to know if the end result is even worth it if you can't commercially get your driver signed.... actually I can't say that because I have no idea how driver signing works.

I will explain my idea for a custom driver too because it may already exist: I would like to create my own webcam driver that allows you to stream directly from OBS. Some virtual webcam software such as ManyCam will let you screen capture your OBS display, but I always felt you should be able to use streaming software directly with any webcam-only streaming service available, like TinyChat or Skype.

Anyone and everyone's input is greatly appreciated!

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Continued software development?

« on: December 05, 2015, 01:33 PM »

I can't comment on legal issues, I can only say that it sounds like a recipe for a lot of unfun fragile work, and you might enjoy more spending your time doing pure coding on a different project...

-mouser (December 05, 2015, 01:34 AM)

You are right. I have thought of an elegant solution to my problem and can address it in a very healthy, safe, and legal matter.

I bet I could make that trainer in minutes though... the challenge is tempting, but I would need the originally uploaded binary for it to work.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Black Friday Deals 2015

« on: December 04, 2015, 08:23 PM »

YouMail is a free or paid service for awesome voicemail features such as uploading a custom audio clip as your voicemail, gui management of your voicemail, custom voicemail messages for specific contacts and much more. Their premium services offer voicemail to text and voicemail to email. Definitely worth a look as it's 40% for the next few hour... I'm sorry I'm so late to this thread, lol.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Continued software development?

« on: December 04, 2015, 05:44 PM »

...you're most likely already screwed.

-wraith808 (December 04, 2015, 05:36 PM)

Oh well. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Looks like I won't be releasing the code and just doing my own thing with it then. Any thoughts on a trainer, wraith?

EDIT: So, I may have found a creative alternative to this software, which I'm very certain I can post on this site and much broader audience will find it useful!

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Continued software?

« on: December 04, 2015, 10:59 AM »

I'm still not getting why, if Stoic Joker's research is not correct on the software, you don't just post the link to the software and the name?  We're not going to judge you based on that fact, and it would help us to help you, since you're coming to us asking the question?  We'd be able to give you academic answers based on the facts of the software in question, rather than generalities that may be right or wrong?  That's the only reason I'm asking.

Everything that everyone has told you so far is correct... in certain situations.  But, they are not correct in all situations, and may not even apply to you.  Asking questions, especially on software rights and such is the right thing to do, and should IMO have no reflection on you that you're asking the questions.  Unless these questions come into play after the software in question is created.  We've had experience with that on DC, and it's not exactly something that I'd like to repeat, as it was an ugly scene, that divided a lot of people on the question.

-wraith808 (December 04, 2015, 10:52 AM)

Here is a link to the software. The author states here that "This will most likely be my last release."

I'm really interested in what people will have to say now that the software has been revealed and it's author only exists as an anonymous 6-post user on a web form, lol.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Continued software?

« on: December 04, 2015, 07:20 AM »

All of these arguments are theoretical, and not necessarily based on your current situation.  I've noted that the software in question isn't mentioned anywhere.  Is there a reason for this?  If you could post what the software is, where the site to get it is, etc., we could possible give more concrete answers based on facts, rather than assumptions.

-wraith808 (December 04, 2015, 04:12 AM)

Yes. The software itself throws morals into question, and I'd rather not just outright post what it does as a first impression of who I am as a programmer. I could have gone ahead and posted the software without discussing it first, but honestly I wanted to make sure it was alright to first, which it's becoming increasingly more difficult to come to a conclusion about. If you would like a description of the software I would be more than happy to PM it to anyone.

I was struggling with that one myself, until I spotted this: Official MSPA Notifier thread. MPSA appears to be (an animation form of some kind?) MS Paint Adventures

-Stoic Joker (December 04, 2015, 06:55 AM)

Well, the MSPA Notifier is my own personal from-scratch project. I began writing it from the ground up in 2011 I believe, and it's been my most successfully distributed project to date. I've learned a lot simply by improving the software over the years, but it is in no way a continued version of anyone's code but my own. If a stylized and custom RSS reader falls under the category of not legitimate program for this site, I'm not sure how long I would last here as I do a lot of web based automation.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Continued software?

« on: December 04, 2015, 12:54 AM »

Well, 40hz, when you're right you're right. I don't own the code nor can I get the author's consent to continue it, and what the program does is morally questionable to the point where I could see someone not wanting it released. The binary has actually been pulled down before, but strangely the source was not. It's sad to think it, but I should best leave my edits personal and closed source.

EDIT: Actually... I'm fairly confident I could hack these bugfixes into a trainer which modifies the program's memory. It could be run in conjunction with the original program, or does something like that have just as little legal ground as modifying the original source?

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DC Member Programs and Projects / PixivUtilAssit - For the Pixiv Obsessed

« on: December 03, 2015, 11:55 PM »

Wow, already uploading my second application, I'm getting goosebumps!

Thank you for your interest in PixivUtilAssist. This is a simple command line utility to automate the process of downloading images from the Japanese artist website Pixiv.

This program requires a few things to run: Firefox, the Firefox addon AppLauncher, and nandaka's Pixiv Downloader.

Extract and configure nandaka's Pixiv Downloader and place the PixivUtilAssist in the same directory.

After installing the AppLauncher addon on Firefox, configure the preferences to point to the PixivUtilAssist program and put "&url;" without the quotes in the argument field.



Browse to your favorite pixiv image and right click and navigate to the AppLauncher selection and watch your automated download at work! You can do this for individual illustrations to download a single image or to a profile to download a user's entire gallery!

Cheers and shoutouts to nandaka for constantly keeping up with pixiv's changes and maintaining the program for as long as they have!

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Continued software?

« on: December 03, 2015, 11:34 PM »

i think the killswitch thing might make people quite uncomfortable.

-mouser (December 03, 2015, 11:31 PM)

I had a sinking feeling that that would be the case. It's unfortunate, but this software has questionable morals to it, but as far as I've researched, nothing illegal. Just another utility to do something you could do with already existing software for free, this just makes things super easy to do it. And if you're gonna do it, go for broke or go home as they say.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Continued software?

« on: December 03, 2015, 10:56 PM »

IANAL, but IIUC, in the U.S. the default policy is that the original author holds copyright over the original at least for some duration (which mysteriously seems to get longer).

Any how, I have my fingers crossed that no ill will come of this.


P.S. Are you a Greek mythology fan?

-ewemoa (December 03, 2015, 10:46 PM)

I hopefully wish to address this by adding a killswitch in my software, permanently rendering all distributed copies disabled and unrunable if any legal action were even hinted at. I just don't know if that violates the upload policy here because it's kind of crippleware?

P.S. Do you read everything backwards? =P