EClark1894 posted at 11:35AM Sat, 01 February 2020 - #4378522

Azath posted at 10:47AM Sat, 01 February 2020 - #4378505

Guess we will see if they keep it in PP12 and stepp into SM's shoes

@ Wolf , it does not prevent Piracy it provokes Piracy . If you run your legal licence it will be affected from the call home it will even periodically send a lock to get all SM versions down even if they have Permanent licences. If you run a unregistriert versions there servers will not be able to get into your system and leave you alone , so there goes honest people!

That's hokum. Locking my door when I go out does not provoke people into wanting to break in. I believe that people who pirate things, including software, are already inclined to do so, if for no other reason than to feed their own egos by proving that they can pirate it. Same reasons some people hack and steal.

The point is the phone home facilitates piracy. My legal copy of Windows 7 at 1 point started giving me the not legit screen. I called Microsoft and they gave me a new activation code, they also told me that my serial number (which I purchased at Newegg) had been used over 10,000 times and that all the pirates had to do (we have continuous internet connectivity now) was just locate a running instance and copy the serial number. They weren't surprised at all.