Wikipedia: History of Software hacking

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Software hacking, or software cracking, is the act of somehow amending a program to do a specified function that is usually unallowable by the program or purposefully locked out by the programmers. A good example would be a "No CD" hack, which edits the program so that the CD is no longer needed to execute the program. Another example occurs when businesses break the copy protection of programs that they have legally purchased but that are keyed to particular hardware, so that there is no chance of downtime due to hardware failure.

There are may groups that a devoted to developing tools for software hacking called cracks or hacks. Those include the Phrozen Crew, UCF?, Xpression?, etc.

Some hacker groups have included Phrozen Crew, UCF?, and DrinkOrDie (an illegal software trading group).

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