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Comment by jchw | Hacker News Reader

To be fair, there's definitely a difference between downloading a pirated version of software, and actually leaking copies of software for others to pirate. The DataRescue and now Hex-Rays folks seem particularly sensitive to leaked copies and I imagine leaked copies genuinely do affect their bottom line of sales given the kinds of markets they're in.

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They certainly seemed to be very much against selling it to private individuals (or were when I asked many years ago).

I guess unless you've got a CV which says "presented at Defcon and Blackhat, five times" or "currently work at {big infosec company}", even if you can afford it the answer will be "nope".

The end result for me was that I bought a Mac Mini and a copy of Hopper and Synalyze It. My entire reverse-engineering of the Polaroid film recorder driver (and the resulting Linux port) was done by reversing the driver DLL in Hopper and shimming the driver and ASPI calls with PyDbg.

I keep looking away for a month or so and finding a new version of Hopper with shiny new features to play with...

I really really liked hopper.

it's probably the one app I missed most switching to windows.

x64dbg eventually grew on me and I like it nearly as much.

That seems odd. Why do they turn down paying customers?

My best guess? Maybe they think private customers are more likely to leak it than companies?

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