And so it came to pass that On Friday, August 8, 2003, at 02:41 PM,
Tobias Giesen spake:
b) as Benjamin pointed out, making your product unusable
by refusing activation codes at some point in the future
is illegal in the States as well as in Europe.
They wont need to do this to get the same result since copy protection
software is amongst the most fragile in existence. All it takes is an
OS upgrade, when Finale 2004 is no longer the current version, which
causes the copy protection software to break. The then current version
of Finale will have its copy protection software upgraded to work with
the OS upgrade but 2004 users will be out of luck.
It is therefore crystal clear that neither Microsoft nor Coda will stop
handing out activation codes for obsolete products, ever.
Activation codes are of no use once the copy protection software is
incompatible with your current operating system. Youll need a museum
to make use of them.
Someone mentioned a Mac/PC take on copy protection and Id only point
out that Mac OSX users have had quite a few reasons to upgrade their OS
recently and this will likely continue for the foreseeable future. One
would imagine
Tyranny,
PTL
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