native instruments service center product activation

Well, guess who became market-leader with Office software? I remember when Microsoft was said to hold to a policy of 'Better people use a cracked Word than a legitimate Lotus'. Keep the basic copy-protection for the basic masses and live with that only those who really want to pay will pay. So at a certain point it doesn't make sense anymore to make copy-protection more rigid, it wont succeed anyway. Anyone who really wants to find a crack can do it. But any widespread piece of software has been successfuly cracked in the past and will be in the future. We all understand that developers need to imploy some basic copy-protection in order to keep the average Joe from simply copying stuff. That's mostly myth coming from manufacturers in order to spread insecurity.

They may be cracked, but that doesn't mean that the cracks remain functional. I had no problem concerning that with my NI software so far, but you can be sure that any piece of software that denies service too often because of copy-protection will be thrown off my system very quick with refunds by the manufacturer to be paid. Your suggestions are fair, but it's also fair for a paying customer to expect that he does not have to contact service in order to make legitimate software accept the copy-protection properly. Have you run your Garritan stuff in standalone and then rescanned your plugins? And, did you ever think of contacting support? See these threads:įor examples of what happens with the cracks after a certain amount of time. Plus it seems that it has done nothing to stop cracking-all the NI stuff is out there cracked-so why does the paying customer have to be punished? And, I'm willing to bet I use the Service Center more than 95% of the people on this board.

Myself, I've had one issue with an actual release version of the Service Center, and that was due to a FM8 beta not uninstalling correctly (the issue was fixed in the release version). However, v2 shouldn't give you those problems iunless you're using a image backup if you did a reinstall of your OS- always reinstall your NI apps. The v1 Service Center was touchy on some systems true. I had no problem before the Service centre was installed now I have pretty much no usable NI stuff.Īre you using the newest service center version and not the ones that came with the apps? Going into the NI forum the general consensus seems to be that service centre doesnt work-I would certainly agree with that.

Native instruments service center product activation