[UNSUPPORTED] KMS Activator - The Original - Plus 8007000D Unbricker and Anti-AV

I just had a very long reply almost finished when suddenly the power went out.

The entire text gone, and i have to resync my RAID1 because Windows insists on resynching 4 partitions with 2TB worth of data even though the volumes werent even written to when the power was lost.

Oh well, seems like some things just arent meant to be. Better luck next time...

 

OK, lets try this one more time.

Exactly.

And thats why it is of the utmost importance to have clear guidelines and a staff that pays attention.

I hope you let that be a lesson because you cant use this excuse forever. This time im willing to accept it, though.

Since this is directly connected to the just-mentioned guidelines part, let me reply to this with a little story.

In our forum, where i co-administrate, (~170.000 members), the circumstances are remarkably similar to the circumstances here. We too are a site which exists solely thanks to the contributions of other people. Without these contributions, the site would be but a mere chatbox with very little actual value. We too have 3 main user-groups. Not counting the 'lurkers', the first group, which is by far the largest, consists of 'semi-regulars' who for the most part only stop by to say thanks, report a problem, ask for help, and things like that. The second group consists of regulars who are not actually developers themselves, but who are always around to contribute by sharing background-knowledge, procuring data/info and/or resources for the devs and also giving them detailed bug reports. Together with the third group they form the hard core of the community. The third group, you guessed it, consists of the developers. These are the people who actually do all the work. They are the ones who actually make the 'products' so the others can have their latest-and-greatest 'stuff'.

Now back in 2001, when the community as it exists now was founded, we had to lay down a few ground rules. This became necessary after certain people started to (ab-)use the openness of the system to take other peoples work, make a few minor modifications such as swapping a couple of thumbnail-size images, and then publishing it as their own work under their own name. (Which of course upset the original authors who typically take several weeks or even months to develop a project from initial layout to completion.) To make a long story short; it was an ugly time, and the stubbornness of some people who felt that they are entitled to take whatever they want from whomever they want with or without their permission threatened to drive our still-young community to an early grave. Measures had to be taken to avoid a total collapse, so we (meaning the regulars and the devs) talked about it and ended up establishing the 'be respectful or be gone' rule. This rule states that whoever is interested in publishing a mod/derivative of somebody elses work has to contact the author in question and ask their permission. If the author gives a green light the modder is welcome to proceed and receive whatever community-support they need. If however the author says no, and the modder proceeds and uploads his mod/derivative to the database anyway, it will be removed and his account and IP banned forever. No discussions, no debates, no warnings. The same goes for the event that a modder doesnt even bother contacting the author first, and also in case somebody is taking/re-using bits and pieces from another authors work without permission. The only exception: The author in question has abandoned his projects and/or cannot be contacted by any means. In this case mods/derivatives count as quasi-authorized, but if the author reappears and vetoes the original rule is back in effect immediately.

Its a simple rule, very clear, and it was established based on a democratically made decision. In other words, even though the rule is rigorous and absolutely non-debatable it has nothing to do with dictatorship and/or casual arbitrariness. Quite on the contrary, we do it this way because we agreed that it is necessary. Because we realized that there will always be people who cant or wont use common sense, and that we would therefore be going through the same crap over and over again unless we layed down a clear guideline that has everyone know the score. (So to speak.) And thats what the rule does. The staff knows how to handle the situation, which enables them to act swiftly before the issue can escalate into a real problem. A potential modder knows exactly what they have to expect if they violate the rule because every member is informed of it when they sign up. And the people who actually keep the community going, namely the authors, can rest assured that their own community wont stand for it if they are being disrespected and/or taken advantage of by people who just dont care. So far this worked pretty well.

This just to illustrate that im by far no stranger to the issue, and that i had my reasons for reacting the way i did. Because in our place there is only one way to deal with such an issue, and like i said, this has nothing to do with 'dictatorship'. After all humiliating someone (as could be done via an infraction) doesnt help us at all. We are not interested in revenge or pointing fingers or making someone running the gauntlet. If somebody cant behave in a decent and civilized manner we simply want them gone and move on with our lifes.



Replies to the rest of the points tomorrow.

Its a long post already and im starting to get tired...

 

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PS: I will try to answer the other inquiries as soon as possible.

For now i have to leave.

 

Thanks Bosh. (And TS.)

I appreciate your attitude and support.

For what its worth; i think youd fit in perfectly at our forums.



On topic: This morning a thought hit me, you know, the sudden and unexpected sort, and a theory, a very ugly theory, began to take shape in my mind.

Ever since i cant get rid of the feeling that there are a lot of rather strange 'peculiarities' going on here, but, i dont want to jump the gun so i will wait some more for a reply from Yen.



To close, a partial-qoute of a post which caught my eye at the frontpage:

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Still not as much as a peep, and since Yen has the time to post in other threads i think thats that then.

Cant believe i was actually stupid enough to entertain the thought that i could have 'misinterpreted' what was clear all along.

But then again, i pretty much knew what to expect when my 'Dictatorship' reply was rewarded with silence.

So much for the 'positive learning effect'. (lol)

I cant believe how wrong i was about that guy, whom i honestly believed to be on my wavelenght.

On the positive side; i know better now.


To those who waited for answers to other questions: Sorry, No Bonus. The Game is Over.

For the record, heres why:



● I created an application for MDL users which contained a part which i wanted to remain confidential. This part was the result of months of analysing, trial-and-error, and devising countless concepts until i had a solution good enough to be released to users. The fact that i did not want the details of this part to be public (for good reasons) was common knowledge.

Another member got jealous at my solution. The fact that i dont want the details to be public was irrelevant to them. Rather than being grateful that i was nice enough to solve the problem and provide a solution they thought they were entitled to knowing the details and getting them by force if necessary. Since they were neither skilled nor ambitious enough to find the solution by actually investigating the problem and doing all the tedious work i had to do they decided to take the quick&easy way and simply pryed into my application in order to steal everything from there. Then they went on to spread it around, acting like it was them who spent months developing the solution. To top it off they put my entire application in unpacked form up for public download.



● The administration of MDL did nothing to stop this, even though this went on for weeks across several threads. I myself was sick at the time and had no idea what was going on. In other words i had to trust that the administration here protects my interests. But they didnt. After i returned and complained the offender was given an infraction, but allowed to stay and continue as though nothing ever happened.

● Upon asking how it can be that i have to come and complain before something is done at all i was told that the staff was 'busy'. (lol) Allegedly there was a thread about Windows 8 which required the constant attention of the entire MDL staff. When i went to that thread to see what they were talking about i was expecting riot and mayhem. I browsed circa 50 pages from the last page backward into the thread, but to my surprise the thread was as pieceful as a sleeping baby. No rioting members, no moderating posts, not a single post moderated by any mod or admin. In other words: The claim that this thread consumed the full attention of the entire MDL staff was either a cheap excuse, hopelessly exaggerated or a flat-out lie. Not to mention of course the fact that if a thread were really ever going to go so bad that it would actually require 24/7 attention of an entire forum staff it would already be way beyond the point where a thread is normally closed.

● Upon asking why they dont ban the offender i was told that the administration believes, against all common sense and evidence to the contrary, that he was 'not aware' that what he was doing is wrong. To me this means that the administration must be either awefully dumb and naive or they think that i am. After all we are not talking about something where one could mess up 'by accident'. We are talking about hacking straight and premeditated into somebody elses application, exposing the confidential parts to the public against the authors express wishes and then making the unpacked application available for download just for the f**k of it. And nobody, NOBODY is so frack-darn stupid that they could be in doubt about the rightfulness or wrongfulness of these actions. Personally i feel insulted that such a ridiculous idea was even submitted to me, especially since the offender himself admitted to having done what he did only BECAUSE i didnt want to make my solution public.

● Another excuse i got hear was that something like this 'had never happened before', which is why the administration 'was not sure how to deal with the incident'. This turned out to be yet another lie after a formerly banned person admitted to having been banned for posting RemoveWATs sourcecode. Needless to say that this was not only a similar case, but exactly the same one. This (not-so-)banned person is now happily posting Windows 8 related stuff with full support of the MDL administration.


So say what you want, but i have seen enough. All things considered i am now firmly convinced that the administration of MDL does in fact fully support the actions of letsgotohell. (Or whatever his name was - this place surely is.) Right now i wouldnt even be surprised if they just made some sort of deal with him, you know, 'take a few weeks off, keep a low profile, when you return we give you a nice new account and with a little luck the phazor problem will have solved itself by then too.' In any case, after all this i wouldnt trust this administration if they told me that water is wet. Just a short time ago the freestyler incident and now this...thats just too much. They lied to me, they came up with excuses so ridiculous that i still cant believe it and their willingness to talk this out was practically nonexistent right from the start. And now, while i and my petty little problem arent even worth a reply anymore, (as if im the one who wronged another member), they are openly supporting someone who has been banned for doing the very thing this whole issue is about. So much for 'we take these things seriously' and 'it wont happen again'. All just a bunch of manure. On the other hand it sort of explains why they dont even bother to ban such people anymore. No point in doing so when you dont actually want them gone. And i sure as hell want no part of this. Not for all the good things in the world. TS did well getting out of that mess, although i dont quite understand why he sticks around. But thats none of my business...




If you wonder why i bother to type all this when im leaving anyway; for two reasons.

1) It might serve as a warning to others, who dont yet realize that the same thing might happen to them regardless of whether they are doing something wrong or not. I never wronged another member, i never made any trouble, i never gave anyone a hard time. All i did was doing my best to make this place more interesting by contributing all sorts of things. And look what it got me. Normally one would think that all these contributions count for something, but as you can see, when it comes right down to it, they dont. Their pride and their belief in the infallibility of their decisions, this is what counts here. Whats actually right or wrong (in other words reason) stops mattering the minute you request an action other than the one they took. Because at that moment you are not making a request anymore. Your request, as reasonable as it might be, sort of auto-transforms into an attempt at blackmail. And needless to say that this is much more than the average admin ego can take. Ergo the decision stands, (so they dont 'lose face'), and if the situation requires it they even start lying to you. In other words its the same old immature kindergarden crap where reason is being pushed out of the way in favor of ego. And you should simply consider this before you spend a lot of your limited time to contribute anything here. Some people here are by far not as 'enlightened' as they would have you believe.



2) Once MDL has lost all of its serious contributors, and the leekme ztuffz people are all who are left, the administration here might want to recall why they have nothing left to offer them. People with good experimenting skills and in-depth knowledge are turning up thin already; MasterDistaster, Jinje, nononsence and so forth, they all seem to be gone. I wonder why. (BTW, when i joined MDL i thought that these folks are the actual MDL community. I thought that this sort of people is what forms the core of MDL. Imagine my surprise when it dawned on me that MDL is mainly a leech-pool (got leakz?) where 99% of the people dont even possess the decency to say thanks when they download your crap. Of course what sux even more is having to realize that the administration isnt really much better. But i digressed. Sure, right now everything is fine and dandy, there are loaders, drivers, trial extenders, KMS Host emulators, etcetera. The solution to the persistent 8007000Ds is now public knowledge too, and Phazors KMS concepts are alive and kicking in other peoples apps. Thanks Phazor, we have what we need so you might as well go now. At least that way our fragile egos wont be hurt. But fact is there will be new versions of Windows, new ways of activation, new sorts of problems, and that is when the copy-happy script kiddies just wont cut it anymore. This will be the times when the thinkers and innovators are needed again, a.k.a. the truly resourceful people who figure out the tough parts and devise new concepts. Am i such a person? Well, decide for yourself, you know what i have contributed here. Other than the obvious i have also written tutorials, posted scripts, gave help and advice, suggested the Thanks system and the Apps forum, hell i even made a MDL wallpaper and a MDL song! What you probably dont now; when i joined MDL, Daz was just about beginning with his loader. By that time i had already developed my own loader application which used custom filenames instead of grldr and i also thought about enhanced obfuscation measures such as storage on an external device and encryption. In fact the first person to ever suggest an encrypted grldr here in the forum was me. Daz presented the first encrypted grldr a short time later, although he says that he didnt get the idea from me. But thats not important. The point is that i could have continued to be a valuable asset to this community because i never run out of new ideas and because my tenacity allows me to find problem solutions other people would never find because they are quite simply lacking the patience to repeat the same tedious trial and error procedures for hours on end, even for days or weeks if need be. And i want the administration of this place to never forget that they have lost this asset because of their own actions. Am i replacable? No doubt. Will i be replaced? Who can tell. The point is that i will be gone and with me go all contributions i could have made in the future. So if i were them i would start asking myself if the non-ban of a person who disrespects and steals from his colleagues was really worth it. Personally i think it was a bad trade, but then what do i know.


Thats all i have to say.

 

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