Subj : Re: Forced registration in Whistler To : Geo. From : Gregg Strom/BRYX Int'l Date : Mon Mar 26 2001 08:31 am From: "Gregg Strom/BRYX Int'l" A despicable practice, not to allow you access to the software you paid for. It looks like they've been taking Microsoft lessons. gs "Geo." wrote in message news:3abfd7fe@w3.nls.net... > "Randall Parker" wrote in message > news:MPG.152925d5b71bfd6f98b8f2@news.barkto.com... > > > > Since you have so many machines and since MS supposedly (someone correct > > me if I'm wrong) is going to offer a volume site license version that > > doesn't require the key to be entered couldn't you personally just use > > that? I realize it doesn't solve the general case for everyone. But it > > ought to solve it for you. > > According to the license, I won't be able to use that version unless I'm > willing to throw away all the licenses for the versions I get with a machine > (assuming I buy a preloaded machine). > > > One big thing about this I don't understand: If MS is going to offer a > > version that doesn't require the authentication then how long will it > > take for that version to come into the hands of bootleggers? Is MS going > > to inconvenience all their legal customers while not providing any > > real obstacle at all to the bootleggers? > > Of course. You don't really believe that online registration is meant to > stop the big bootleggers? How many times does it have to happen before > people realize that copy protection like this only serves to inconvenience > honest customers? Is anyone going to pirate version 2.1.1.1 of cuseeme > today? No they pirate the current version, the copy protection only serves > to make my day, me a paying customer. > > My position on this, if cuseeme people don't make it right am I going to buy > the new version. No, I'll pirate it before I buy it. If you treat me like a > criminal then I may as well behave like one. > > Geo. > > --- BBBS/NT v4.00 MP * Origin: Barktopia Gating Project http://HarborWebs.com:8081 (1:379/45) .