A-NO-NE Music schrieb:
Look, One of my student's FinMac2004 stopped starting up, saying its demo has expired. I called support right away, and I was told _their_ database of her auth seems to be corrupted, and they will reset it.
You know what this means? They must be checking your MAC address. What puzzling me is that she is not on broadband cable but phone modem instead. When and how they are checking Finale auth host machine is the myth.
It just means that the reauthoring process didn't work at that time. I know for a fact that once Finale is registered there is no way that MM checks the registration online, unless you reregister. Originally your students registration became corrupt for whatever reason requiring reauthorization.
I have been through some authorization problems myself, which had to do with using a WLAN pcmcia card, which was not permanently plugged in. I know pretty well how the Finale registration works, at least on the Mac side, because of all the trouble-shooting I had to do.
You actually get your authorization code sent (at least I did) after registering, and this code will work for reregistering at any time without having to be online.
I am sorry but you are now creating rumours which are completely false. I understand you are upset, but please stay with the facts.
A) because you are wrong about their ability to monitor registrations, they cannot.
At that time, I was so excited that they can check your auth-ed machine over the net, so they will have no problem giving multiple installs to one user. As matter of the fact, I got my 3rd auth just like that. They can see these machines with these machine S/N belong to me, and the support person said they just need to make sure I am the only one using it, which I provided my studio info on the net. At that time, she didn't give me any impression that I will have this much trouble getting the 4th one.
B) because they cannot tell _who_ is using your copy of Finale, and _how many_ are using it at the same time. That's what site licenses are for, they check for how many copies are in use simultaneously.
Now, Hiro, I whole-heartedly recommend that you lean back, think again, and ask yourself whether what you are asking for is all that reasonable.
Regarding Fin2004 premise, one can easily imagine Finale wanted to move onto iLok, but coding for iLok is very difficult if your core program is rather legacy. I have witnessed such development phase a few times. You try to implement iLok to your program, and it brakes down beyond repairable. PACE code is a poison from what I heard. I bet Finale tried it, and it didn't work nor they found it isn't worth fixing for iLok.
Please, MakeMusic, if you are listening, do not go iLok!
On the net or P2P, I can download cracked version of Fin2005 but I can't do that. I am too close to software dev industry, and I can't allow myself using illegal copy of software. This is why I am not using my wife's auth. I paid for it, but it's under her name, not my.
Even your third installation is already in violation of the license. So be happy that MM allowed that.
Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de
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