![]() ![]() ![]() I think a 10 year or longer run is pretty good. ![]() Lastly, yep they want to make money on new software. The inability to assure the libraries will operate in the future because updates have been discontinued on older versions. Expired contracts with NI by said 3rd party libraries. Several factors were likely involved in the decision to cut these programs. The more recent NI portal is probably not as generous. Unless I misunderstand, once registered on an older computer there should be no need for a check in to the server, at least on older installs. I guess there is something to be said of keeping that old DAW around with older software on it just in case. I do think NI could have done better though. I would have still bought all these products had I been told that in 2020 they were going to off line the authorization server. But I love software to much to avoid products just because their copy protection isn't ideal. More likely it will lead to more and more subscription products, rather than companies going with copy protection that can survive the company going out of business/shutting-down. Given the state of software products I don't see this one changing into something I like anytime soon. Sadly it's not even close to most I've lost because of companies not continuing to run authorization servers (Autodesk is still winning that by about $2-3k) ![]() Unless it's just a serial number or something stored 100% in a dongle, when the company stops issuing responses, your product will no longer be re-installable.įor me this list of things NI is killing is a at least a thousand dollars worth of stuff. The truth is that any challenge-response based copy protection system can and will go offline. □ Maybe you'll be spared, but it sure sounds like the serial number is fed into a challenge-response system. Those sample libraries from that list were initially released as standalone plugins (Kompakt/Intakt branded plugins, this was before Kontakt Player, way over 10 years ago, closer to 15 years now). Serial number is just a gateway into challenge-response activation scheme, it requires an activation server to provide authorization keys based on your hardware ID. Isn't that basically just a serial number that needs to be "maintained" as in being recognised by Native Access? ![]()
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