[TechLord]

@Zenix:

Sometimes, I felt I would rather spend my time with family, my parents than serving those people without a thanksgiving heart.

Thank you for opening up your heart and being frank with us. Just like me, I am sure that most of us appreciate it a lot !

I think only very few people understand my feeling and why I could not sleep well during the past two months. 10 Years is not a short time and unpack.cn is a major portion of my life.

Taking a decision to shut down something that is one's LIFE'S WORK and a MAJOR ACHIEVEMENT is a VERY important one, and I can very well identify with what all feelings you must be going through !

I have also had to make similar decisions like these, in the course of my life, and it is something that really gives one a LOT of sleepless nights, just thinking about it...

It is not easy to make a torrent like tuts4you as unpack.cn is a forum only. There is no download area. Also, this is not a decision that I can make by myself.

The question would be, whether to actually CREATE such a downloadable archive of the site or not...

And secondly, whether to make such an archive ONLY containing POSTS and NOT attachments (to prevent abuse)..

And thirdly, whether to make it available to just about anybody ?

This is a question best left to the ADMINS of UpK, and whoever are the decision makers...

As long it is for a free download, NO ONE from here would refuse the archive !

Even I, have to admit that , especially in the past, had sometimes been a leecher, though it was for a variety of reasons (one of them being that I thought that I had nothing useful to share ) !

As far as CREATING the archive is concerned, I have all the necessary tools and the know-how to create one, provided I am given the necessary permission of course, to create the archive !

I am also pretty sure that there are MANY on this forum who are EQUALLY CAPABLE and willing to undertake the task as well...

Only that, in case I am entrusted with the task, I simply cannot do it in a day or two, and wwould have to balance my Job schedule as well, taking effectively as few days, assuming that the download speed of the site is pretty decent...

Hence, I would think that the final question would be, as to whether the archive SHOULD or SHOULD NOT be created in the first place , best answered by the respective in-charges !

As for eXeTools, it will not be closed.
If Aaron and I are too old to maintain it, we will hand it to other people.

It is SUCH a great relief to know this !

Also, we hope you all start to understand the reason we make new and strict forum rules this year. We want to get rid of most leechers. Also, we noticed that some members make money from the resource of eXeTools. Even some are VIP. This is not correct.

One of the reasons that I PRIMARILY post only on this forum (from the time of the new rules this year) and sometimes post some special items ONLY in this forum, is because, since the new rules came into effect, no one can simply make a new account and spam !

On some other forums, I am plagued by people, who don't want to "lose face", by asking me for help on the forum, and so, simply open up new accounts there and then spam me using PM or email, asking me "crack" various programs, especially dongled ones.

Here, they can't open new accounts just like that, and hence there is some measure of sanity !

I also agree that information from this forum should NOT be used for making money, especially ILLEGALLY !

This is not to JUDGE those here on this forum who SELL software illegally, but simply because, I know a LOT of cases of Reversing Forums, who get asked by the Law Enforcement to shut the forum down due to illegal activity.

I do not want our exetools forum to be EVER shut down like that, for such reasons !

Governments and Law Enforcement Agencies get activated in most situations to close down forums like ours, when mainly, they get pressure from "wealthy" companies like Sentinel or Giants like Microsoft, when they keep reporting that illegal "cracking" and sales of programs gets done by members in these forums...

This is why, I specifically take pains, to ensure that ,at least from MY SHARING of knowledge, that no illegal selling or similar activity takes place.

Any sharing I do is for educational or learning purposes only, and this usually keeps the reversing forums safe...

EVERYBODY here know who all sell and who all don't benefit monetarily from knowledge in this forum

I even now, get at least 2-3 emails a day from members in this forum, pretending to "test" me and see if I can or cannot crack a particular (mostly dongled) software. You know who you are !

I just think, that isn't it a rather HUGE co-incidence that all the program that they ask me to crack are VERY expensive (and mostly EMBROIDERY) programs

I really think, that at least so that our forum is safe, that individuals who use knowledge from THIS forum to SELL AND MAKE MONEY should be reprimanded...
I know that those "sellers" may hate me for saying this, but sorry, this is just a frank viewpoint of mine ...

Cheers