I'm with Iloco. Anti-piracy schemes are always a balance between protecting the software and inconveniencing the customer. In this case, it's way out of balance. The inconvenience to the customer is way out of line for the protection E-on gets.

The anti-piracy scheme prevents users from using the stuff as they need to. But, near as I can tell, it doesn't prevent piracy. Yes, you need to be a legit buyer to run the installer. But after the installer is run, you can put the veg files anywhere you want. At least, I did. I accidentally downloaded the wrong version, as many of us did, and simply moved the files over the version I wanted to use the plants in. It works fine. (If this is illegal, I'll undo it. Never occurred to me that it might be, until this mess.)

It seems pretty silly to invconvenience customers to such an extent, when it's so easy to get around the "protection."