It does not take much looking to find groups of people, through the web, using illegal copies of software on their PDA. According to a forum thread at MobileRead.com it appears that the developer of Pocket Mechanic has added some coding to the program to fight back.

If someone uses a pirated serial number with certain versions of Pocket Mechanic the software detects the pirated key and hard resets the PDA. Maybe it is just me but this goes way to far. In the United States we have laws against this kind of thing, you cannot take justice into your own hands. Secondly, this is just stupid. It is a fight that the developer cannot win. Those cracking the software will always stay one step ahead, all the developer of Pocket Mechanic is doing is alienting honest pontential buyers of his software. It would seem wise to stay away from all software developed by Anton Tomov. This list includes Pocket Hack Master, Pocket Mechanic, Pocket Battery Analyzer, PocketPC Mark, GPRS Keep Alive.

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