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This message has been edited by soapbox on 05-18-2001 at 06:53 AM Instead, I hope we will let our experiences speak for themselves. Having said that, I hope that we will not debate this issue in this thread. It is best summed up in this statement: The only proven effect of "copy protection" is that it alienates paying customers.

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However, this issue often has us at each other’s throats while software pirates relax and enjoy the rewards of free software without authorization hassles.īecause of the above, I have come to an unfortunate conclusion. In one case it’s tools, in the other it’s money. After all, each has something the other needs.

Software companies and their paying customers should be natural allies. They depend on the use of software for their livelihood and when the authorization for that software fails, the customer loses income. Customers often see the situation as reversed. Companies sometimes get defensive that anyone who gets upset about "copy protection" is threatening the welfare of the company. Speaking from my personal experience, one of the few times it feels as if a company doesn’t care about it’s paying customers is when the issue of "copy protection" arises. I imagine that this trend has already created an increasing level of frustration for companies. The rise of the Internet and Hotline gave hackers the tools they needed to get pirated software into the hands of millions. This trend can only create an increasing level of frustration for users when it comes to authorizations.Īnother change has occurred as well: "Copy protection" is no longer effective (which is why I’ve been putting quotes around this term). As sequencers evolved into DAWs, the opportunity arose for dozens of third party developers to create plug-ins, each with its own policy of installing authorizations and with the rise of software synthesizers, this issue continues to grow ever more complex.

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It was effective because hackers didn’t have an easy way to give cracked software to people. It was simple because a customer generally just bought one or two pieces of "copy protected" software, such as a sequencer or a notation program. Once upon a time, "copy protection" was both reasonably simple and effective. This information may help them build a better product. Most of them seem to care what the user experience is like for their products. I’ve been frequenting these forums long enough to notice that there are a number of representatives from equipment and software manufactures who read what we say. Feel free to write about times when you were greatly inconvenienced by a failed authorization or when it was very difficult to authorize your software at all. I created this thread to gather a collection of your stories about "copy protection" gone awry.