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Apparently this used to be open source software until the guy suddenly decided to make it nagware and then decided to make it paid software.
https://allpcworld.com/filebot-elite-4-free-download/ This is the most recent crack I managed to find but don't try it with a newer version because for some reason when I applied the crack to the latest one available on the official website and then launched the app it tried to restart my windows.
I honestly didn't think this kind behavior still existed for anti piracy measures like the worst I can think of is with adobe software where they alert you that you don't have a genuine copy on your pc and then try to scare you into buying it.
Since it was system related it kind of reminded me a bit of what 0verflow (you probably know them for School Days) did with that visual novel Cross Days: Back then when it initially released they put out a fake download of the game that when installed would take a screenshot of their desktops and then upload them to a website online:
https://web.archive.org/web/20100325164031/http://blog.livedoor.jp/insidears/archives/52256874.htmlThere is that legendary screenshot they captured that you will find under "Ahh..."
It doesn't surprise me that much given how much piracy was despised by online japanese internet spaces such as 2channel and 2chan and made fun of people that pirated calling them netrun-chu (Netrun refers to a piracy magazine that used to release in Japan that detailed all the ways to crack/hack software which used to sell like 200,000 copies per new release. Adding -chu at the end is essentially the same as adding fag at the end of something.)
Netrun was also infamously known to have taken net characters from 2chan (futaba if you don't know) and then basically kind of misrepresenting them and illegally releasing an anime based on them and then trying to profit off of the popularity with stuff like merch. I can share some articles if it sounds interesting.