Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Launcher Premium Activation - Italy Update

WARNING: Nasty words ahead!!!

So, somebody challenged me and tried to bully me again. Pissed me off enough to write this shit.

As a precursor, see this link as to why there's a need for activation codes in the first place: TokenMaster's Tools Region Ban

After my travel last week, I got the following email from marco.milano@alice.it

I totally disagree with the unfair request of activation against us Italians,but at least if you decided to do it, you should answer the request of activation!
Would you please send me the code? I requested it 7 days ago and I cannot code!


To which I replied:

I understand. And I totally disagree with an Italian, Chinese and Russian taking advantage of me and my application - the reason why Italy, Russia and China are restricted. And since you don't feel to good about it, you are free to use other application. I am not forcing you to use any of my tools. Ciao! 

And he fired back:

Sorry for you, but you decided to bully the wrong person.
I am not an Italian thief, I am an Italian PhD and I wrote many essays on Italian magazines and newspapers about Bmw cars as a technical journalist specialized in car reviews.
So I feel deeply offended to be considered a thief only because of my birthplace: this is racism!
I do not know what some "Italian, Chinese and Russian" people did with your software or your person, but I cannot be held responsible for other people's actions.
If you are looking for thieves, the only ones I encountered are these:
http://codingf10.com/downloads/f-series-complete-coding-pack/
as they are SELLING your software for money. And if you're living in the aforementioned countries... you buy it, and you cannot use it as activation is requested. You should take actions against them.
But speaking of me, I politely requested activation clicking a button in your software, and had no answer for eight days.
You ignored my request, but you were promptly answering me when I complained!
Full of arrogance and racism you are offending me, and not giving me the code I KINDLY AND POLITELY requested for days, you think to punish me (for guilts that are not mine) not letting me use your software.
Well, I am sorry but it took only 20 minutes to change Windows country and use your excellent software.
So I am no more requesting your activation code, but your excuses.
Otherwise, I will publish your racist and arrogant answer, and as a journalist you can be sure I will.
I hope you'll learn that a person is only responsible for his actions, and cannot be offended and bullied only because of his nationality.

Threats rub me off the wrong way. This pissed me of pretty bad, so my final reply:

Thanks for proving my point. I'm so glad I put those checks in place for people like you. If you think I don't know the workaround, you're gravely mistaken. Enjoy it while it lasts. As you so arrogantly called me names and accused me things, I will make sure the new version won't have the workaround. I hope the rest of Italy are proud of what you have done.
The only bully between the two of us is you. You can write anything against me for all I care. Prove to me that you fucking people in the media are all dirty, socialist and self-entitled. I so dare you!
Don't even try to respond, you're already blocked.
If you are going to be an ungrateful bitch, take it somewhere else. I'm not having any of that, regardless of your pedigree. I don't care whether you have a PhD or didn't graduate, it's all bullshit to me. I guess you can't learn manners in Universities.

So, apology to my Italian (and Russian and Chinese) friends for the changes that I will be implementing. Again, if I can focus the ban on a few individuals, I'd do that.

9 comments:

  1. I am always astonished when I see how some people behave online, I wonder if in real life he would dare to speack like that.
    But as an italian myself I'd like to give my 2 cents: don't blame the Country, blame the man, he and people like him are nothing more than idiots.

    Said so the software is yours and you have every right to distribuite as you prefer and the only comment that makes sense is: thanks for the great support you have given to the coding community.
    Enrico

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    1. Like I said, if I could target individuals, I would, but I can't.

      I have nothing against Italy as a whole. I have a couple of Russians and an Italian friends and can't say anything bad about them. I have encountered a few jerks, thankfully, they're far and few between.

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  2. I'm pretty sure the Italian for this guy is "stronzo totale"

    Keep up the good work and don't let them bring you down!

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  3. Unfortunately people don't fill point in which need to stop. I was contacting about activation code a lot of times too, and didn't get code jet, but i am not crying about it. Same like didn't get response about PRO version. But i will never say thinks like this. Eli is developer of this software, and he can do what he want!
    Hope we will see soon some updates for rest of normal world :)

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  4. It's amazing how people can have a sense entitlement when it's them who are asking for favours. Tokenmaster and people like him are doing this for our hobby and it's their choice of what to or not to do with it. More power to you and others in our hobby of tinkering with our cars!

    Regards
    Raygbmw1

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  5. hi Token Master,
    first of all congratulations for all the good work done on the Launcher.

    I am impressed with what you achieved given that there is basically no documentation on any of these things (as far as I know).

    Short version of the question: what is the best way to use your tool if you happen to be sitting in Italy?
    I am talking about the Premium version, personal use, to code my own car.

    Also do you actually sell the PRO (not the premium) version?
    If so, how would one buy it?

    Apologies I have completely misunderstood the situation.

    If you don't sell it and you are not interested in profiting from your software then I am wondering why don't you "open source it" a bit more.
    Generating tokens manually for every person who wants to use your software does not seem like a scalable approach if you are fortunate enough to create something that a lot of people want to use.

    Just an observation, hope you don't mind.

    thanks,
    Michele

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    1. Going "Open Source" is the quickest way to shut this thing down.

      I agree, it's not scalable and actually taking a toll on me. Activation feature wasn't added to prevent people from using it, but rather, to discourage some people from selling a free software. But I can't stop people from buying free software.

      Generating code is a huge undertaking and quite overwhelming, but what is the alternative, completely ban regions? I wish I can do that, or have the will to do just that, so I can regain a couple of hours worth of sleep :( Evidently, expecting people to not profit from it is not a popular idea.

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  6. Hi Eli,

    thanks for your good work.

    While reading your blog I came to the question why not adding a clear Message to E-Sys Launcher Premium that this is free software, where to download and how to get the activation key?
    I guess this would sooner or later destroy the business for those trying to sell your software.

    Best Regards
    Tom

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