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squijello
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_ 		3. July 2005 @ 07:50 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
whats the deal with programs and their activation. It makes me nervous, because in the event something happened and the company is forced to shut down, as was the case with 321, you are in trouble if the program needs to be activated! couldnt they create unique systems and blacklist any dumbass who spreads a key over the net?
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Blessedon
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_ 		3. July 2005 @ 11:03 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
The owner could not have a activation problem if he owns the legal copy, If the company shuts down...he's already activated. No reason to be nervous. I believe I made my point.
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couldnt they create unique systems and blacklist any dumbass who spreads a key over the net?
, if you come up with that system, you'll be a billionaire.
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Ppower
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_ 		4. July 2005 @ 15:27 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Plain old activation doesn't scare me but this new periodical validation does. This is the type of activation TMPGEnc 3.0 Xpress uses and I belive Canopus products. This is where "your" program must contact the company server occasionlly to update the serial number to stay active. The serial may expire once a day, week, month whatever. You hope the company and/or server stay up, but who knows. The way I see it you don't really own the software
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Blessedon
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_ 		4. July 2005 @ 17:43 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Good point, Ppower. With periodical Validation the software is indeed not owned, it is rented. And the user is renting a service, nothing more. We would all do well to not patronize this type of skulduggery for it is akin to the selling of our souls.
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squijello
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_ 		4. July 2005 @ 21:02 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
i feel that with any sort of activation at all you are renting or leasing the software, and that it is really not yours... even though it is since you payed for it. This is why i feel that it should be fully activated based on a dynamic key, and anyone who abuses the system (their key is spread around the internet) that it be blacklisted for future versions...
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Blessedon
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_ 		5. July 2005 @ 02:16 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
The sad part is that many people's activation keys end up distributed because they were hacked and stolen.
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arniebear
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_ 		5. July 2005 @ 05:21 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I agree that a large number of activation keys are hacked and stolen. In some ways people need to be more careful, example being how many Nero logs are posted on this site with SN's listed. Many times you tell the person to edit, but they don't.
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squijello
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_ 		5. July 2005 @ 09:43 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
if that can be determined as the case... the user who was hacked should be able to receieve a different code to use while the one that was hacked be blacklisted. I guess the only true way to prevent the pread of things is to monitor sites that offer them.
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