If it makes anyone feel any better, there is a much worse copy protection scheme out there than Finale 2004's challenge-response scheme, and, believe it or not, even worse than Sibelius'.
Try upgrading Logic versions from emagic. Firstly there is a brand-new dongle that has to be plugged into the USB port (yeah, like that's really reliable). Secondly, there is also a challenge-response system by which you have to fill in your details on an EXACT piece of paper, in an EXACT envelope, with your EXACT original CD and original old dongle to be sent to your distributor, at your own expense, who then forwards it by mail to Germany. Eventually they email your return code back (mine took about 9 weeks).
Yes. I prayed every night that my dongle would make it there safely.
To make it even worse, in order to upgrade from, say, Logic 4 to Logic 6, you also have to pay the full expensive upgrade fee to Logic 5, even though you didn't get to use it, it all adds up to a giant "I'd prefer to use a cracked version" disaster. I think there's a circle in Hell for the paranoid programmers who conceived this rubbish, and I sincerely hope that Makemusic doesn't decide to follow their lead.
And after all the hoops emagic makes you jump through - they won't give us an electronic copy of the manual because it might encourage piracy of the software!!
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David Stonestreet - Coming to you from Sydney Australia. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
