David W. Fenton wrote:
On 3 Mar 2005 at 18:42, Noel Stoutenburg wrote:
But to those who characterize the (what I consider to be) modest scheme currently implemented by MakeMusic! to be "victimware", I would ask how you would propose that MakeMusic! maintain the integrity of the product. I've thought of several myself, and everyone I've thought of I like less than the current situtation. As I see it, the present arrangement is a reasonably good balance between the priviledges of the licensors (us) and the rights of the licensee (MakeMusic!).
All such schemes are defeatable, so you're only actually restricting the honest users, while not actually preventing any significant piracy.
In other words, they inconvenience their dedicated user base while accomplishing nothing at all in terms of increased revenues (they don't get any more sales, they just have fewer casual users running the program illegally).
...and given that there's a hacked version of Finale 2005 around (as there is for Office XP, Publisher XP, and just about anything else using authentication), it probably isn't even achieving that.
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