With the release of version 1.29 of PageFour, complete with one change to a single line of code, the crackers have returned.

My personal opinion of the people downloading my software from these illegal sites is that they’re one candle shy of a decent birthday cake. If I were giving the product away for free, they probably wouldn’t touch it. After all, freeware is just so common! As soon as they realise they can steal something other people pay for, and do so from a shady web-site with Mandarin text, PageFour suddenly becomes hot property.

I can just picture the emails flying to one dank bedroom after another. “Check this out. You can use it for that novel you always wanted to write about life in a twelfth century Cistercian monastery!”

Get a life guys!

Still, some of these sites have a halfway decent pagerank, so the links do perform one useful service.