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 won’t 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 it’s 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. You’ll need a museum to make use of them.
Someone mentioned a Mac/PC take on copy protection and I’d 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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