It's too easy to crack paid plugin and IDEs

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I don’t know how to alert JetBrains about this problem. I won’t discuss it publicly, and I already opened an issue for that (CPRTINF-5521, private to JB and me), but it’s super easy to use paid plugins and IDEs without paid licenses.
I opened CPRTINF-5521 two months ago, and still zero feedback. This led me to add additional protections to my plugins, but I wonder why JetBrains seems to remain silent on this issue. I understand that this is certainly a critical issue, but you could at least give your opinion when plugin developers alert you to it.

(feel free to delete this thread, I just want to alert you about this issue, and get a minimal feedback)

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Notified the corresponding people.

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Still no feedback.

Just for info, my latest plugin releases are protected against the given crack, and it had to happen: yesterday (2 weeks after I’ve published my plugin releases), a user email me because he can’t use my plugin. I look at his idea.log: he was clearly using a crack :rofl:
Which means at least some people still crack the IDE, and plugins…

I really hope you will take is seriously.

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