As you may know, the PC version of marketplace went live yesterday with advance protection..this is a “better” protection than the original “CAB copy protection” Marketplace offered. This “advanced” protection uses license keys that are verified when you run the application, and given out and controlled by Microsoft.

The hacker developer Chainfire , who is a well know member in the xda-dev community has managed to bypass the protection with a generic hack that will completely bypass the entire code snippet provided by Microsoft that is supposed to check and validate your license code,for all Marketplace apps.

The 1st copy protection took him 5 mins to break and this one in under 2 hours. He will NOT release the code ( which is an exe file that runs in the background, good on ya mate ) but wants Microsoft to take notice of the issue and allow developers to to use their own licensing systems. via xda-developer

Tags: Windows Mobile Marketplace