![]() ![]() OTOH I picked up 4 desirable Exponential reverb plugins from Plugin Boutique for a sum total of £60 recently. I can sympathize, I don't like feeling treated like a potential criminal and have hated dongles, but I also realise it's not Personal, and is possibly necessary for the bigger players in the market to remain profitable, and keep their businesses going. Nowadays I am not buying any more products with that kind of copy protection. On technical level, all that is unnecesary to actual functioning of the software, and on moral level - which is even more important - it equates to always treating the paying customer as a suspected thief. To quote Star Wars, "The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers." ) Nowadays I am not buying (nor using) any more products with that kind of copy protection. On technical level, all that is unnecessary to actual functioning of the software, and on moral level - which is even more important - it equates to always treating the paying customer as a suspected thief. I did all they asked for on their terms, jumping through online activation hoops, buying extra dongles for backup, installing license monitoring software and so on.Įventually I got fed up with absurdity of things like having to ask for more activations online before I can use my rightfully licensed software after a computer upgrade, or having my ability to use the software depend on a "magic" dongle or some equally "magic" supervisor software which has to be installed on my computer. I've been a longtime paying customer of many companies who utilize user-unfriendly copy protection. Strong copy protection, DRM and forced online (re)activations are absurd in this regard, making the cracked version more convenient to actually use. Am i justified in doing this?Īs far as I know, this has been happening for decades now. I just don't like their 'technological enforcement of licensing policy'. ![]() Just like that, i have a system ready for recording/mixing/composing and equally easy to remove when done.Īgain, i bought it clean. Hell, i can have it stored on a thumb drive and use it in someone else's computer minutes right after installing and importing my REAPER configuration. I'm tempted to use the cracked one because it simply can be used anywhere, even without the license manager or dongles. I bought a plugin in pluginboutique because i really love it. ![]()
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