The Syncrosoft Dongle Is Best DRM

braincell · Post by **braincell** » Fri May 09, 2008 4:21 am

It is important. That is why Apple iTunes is evil. A lot of companies are now taking a second look at DRM. Native Instruments can get away with it because they have some very unique software. If there was an identical alternative with no DRM, I would surely pick that. Like I said before, since they changed their policy it is easier. I have to think it was due to customer demand. I can remember an angry phone call I had with them early on about this. As usual, they insisted there was nothing wrong with the DRM policy but I see that they did give in. If you are unhappy about something you could shop elsewhere but another tactic would be for everyone to complain. In the end, they do want happy customers.

kylie · Post by **kylie** » Fri May 09, 2008 5:42 am

it's absolutely ok to complain if you are not satisfied with the way a company handles their software protection. if they feel the need to improve something, they probably do (as your example might show). if there is very little complaint about it, they most probably won't.

I for one am not ok with the cd protection scheme of the wavelab4 cd. I cannot read them any more in a recent drive, or better, the copy protection prevents me from installing the software in a usable way from the original cd. I circumvented that (to a certain degree) by buying the upgrade to wl6 (which is protected now by a synchrosoft dongle btw

), but for the installation process you have to insert the wl4 cd, which I was only able to read properly because I had an old teac scsi cd-writer which I connected via usb2scsi...

I for one have no problem with the CW/SC protection scheme. I know you think different, but you do on many things concerning SC, so I'm not overly surprised here.
I nevertheless agree with you that no drm or copy protection increases the ease of use for those who pay for what is protected with it. nothing is perfect...

-greetings, markus-