You Serials : Adware-free Serial and CD Key Search Engine
There is no doubt that there are many people out there who still prefer to use pirated software. It’s especially common among users who live outside the U.S. Although almost any popular commercial software program has an equally good freeware, most of the users are simply not aware of them and find it a lot easier to use the pirated version. Here on MakeUseOf, we neither encourage nor discourage the use of such websites, it’s up to you to decide. We simply tell you about the best website for the task. And YouSerials is one of them.
There are plenty of popular websites that offer free serials and CD Keys. The problem with most of such websites, they are full of adware and spy bots. In exchange for a serial number or CD key people are asked to sign-up or install some kind of craplet. A quick Google search for ‘some commercial program serial’ should give you a pretty good idea about how hard it is to find a working serial.
You Serials is probably the cleanest serial and CD key search engine out there. As stated on their website, “the website is designed to provide its users with a directory of information of serial numbers which is compiled by other users…”.
It claims to have neary 55.000 serials (Microsoft Office, Windows XP, Windows XP Pro, Nero 8 Ultra Edition, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Office 2007, Plus Microsoft Office 2008, NOD32 Antivirus, etc). There is no need to sign-up or install anything. Search, Find and Copy the serial. It also shows the most popular, top 100 and recently added serials and CD keys.
Furthermore, there is a browser addon that lets you search on YouSerials without going to the website first.
Check out You Serials @ www.youserials.com
“Here on MakeUseOf, we neither encourgae nor discourage the use of such websites, it’s up to you to decide. ”
Bull shit. You just encouraged it by making a post about it. Would you write “Hey, I’m not into robbing people at gun point personally… but here’s some links on how to do it”? No, of course you wouldn’t.
This is wrong. This post is an insult to all the hard working software developers whose work you have featured before. I think you made a mistake by going this direction.
As I have mentioned earlier, we are not telling anyone they should use it. You can believe or not.
If you want to buy, and if you have money for that, just do it. This is’t wrong, is share, like using neighbour’s car or something like that. What kind of person searching serials just to blame it? Greedy developers ,people or serials hunters.So BACK OFF !!
I was quite surprised to see this myself. But lets face it, anyone who uses pirated software knows exactly what sites to go to get this kind of thing. Rather than encourage people to pirate who don’t already, it just another website to add to the bookmarks for those that do.
“…anyone who uses pirated software knows exactly what sites to go to get this kind of thing.”
Adult and serial/cdkey websites are the exact websites where people pickup spyware. I am sure anyone who has worked in IT support can confirm this.
No one except the casual downloader goes to these sites. They are riddled with malicious ware
(Comments wont nest below this level)Instead of encouraging people to use pirated software (which this article does), I would have rather found out more about freeware alternatives to commercial software.
I disagree that this will encourage pirating.
If people didn’t pirate before, they aren’t going to start just because they can find serials without risk of crapware now.
If people did pirate before then they already know where to find serials and this will just be a convinience.
To reply to your other point. If we take the example of office software. If someone pirates MS Office and someone else Open Office instead, neither of them are paying Microsoft.
Of course there are moral and legal issues, but my point is that pirated or freeware, they both have the same result for the software author.
Guys, get real here and get off your high horse. This is the real world. People pirate software and grab serial numbers all the time. Make Use Of is not saying it’s right and we certainly don’t condone it, not for one minute. But do you really think that people looking for this site would not have found it if we hadn’t included it in our directory? Of course they would still have found it! There’s things called SEARCH ENGINES!
Our goal is to build a comprehensive impartial directory where we don’t pass judgment on the content of the site. What people then do with these sites is up to them. If they want to use these serial numbers to break the law, well, that is up to them and their conscience. We can’t and won’t intervene.
Make Use Of will always support the hard working efforts of software developers everywhere.
well, thanks MUO… it appears all this attention has contributed to this site being pulled down. So both sides win?
i know that onle idiot
not every one like u ass hole, have a lot of money good wealth in live. I’m very grate full for this site.
I own XP Home, and XP Pro. I have the serial numbers, but lost the CD’s. I got a copy of the CD for the pro and MY LEGAL serial number DID NOT work. Until MS comes up with a user friendly way of assisting PAYING customers, people will need sites such as these. Since Vista is out now and there are issues, I do not want to buy XP again-being I paid for two versions already, and Vista is the current OS. I am afraid I may not meet the system requirements for Vista and don’t have the cash to rebuild my system for a new OS.
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Are free serial numbers legal?
Sometimes people pirate software simply because they want to get a “full-version feel of the software before they make a purchasing decision. I use serals and keygens to find out what’s worth buying, for example, because sometimes demo versions just plain suck. They are unnecessarily crippled sometimes. I personally support the Microsoft model in this case where for example they’ll give you a certain key for 60 day of uncrippled use of the software. After that, whoever can afford to, and knows little about computers, and believes the hype that someone is watching everything you do, will get the software legally. The people who can’t afford it will either get a free alternative, or use a pirated version. In any case, the use of the pirated version is the lesser evil for microsoft because while they do not get money (which matters little, since they weren’t going to get it anyways), at least it will not cause them to lose “market share”. If the user chooses the pirated version, he still broadens the MS user base, which is also beneficial to the software suite.
I need a CD key for Adobe Acrobat Pro 8.0
Thanks in advance
Later
This site sucks, you have to fill out some bullsh*t survey to even use it, please mention this before saying what a wonderful site it is, and yes, I know you are trying to help, but my time is as valuable as anyone else’s. gracias.
the fu*cked up part is you cant have a membership , you have to pay again every time you use this place , and what if you dont find the serial you need ,,shit you just payed for nothing