On Thursday, August 28, 2003 5:10 AM, Aaron Sherber wrote: > At 05:53 PM 8/27/2003, Brad Beyenhof wrote: > >But your Finale serial number is in no way connected with the copy > >protection. It is merely an identification system used by > MakeMusic to > >determine who is eligible for upgrades, etc. > > Anyone with a copy of pre-2004 Finale and a valid serial > number can install > it with no problems. > > And given all the talk recently about copy protection, it just seemed > ironic for Coda to sent out thosands of pieces of mail with > the serial > numbers right on them -- especially when there's absolutely > *no* reason why > the serial number had to appear on the label. It's a little > like getting > mail from the bank with your account number on the address label.
But you don't even need a "valid serial number" to install any previous version! You can just type whatever you want into that box and it'll install just fine. The point of typing in your real serial number is to have a record of it in easy reach (the About... panel has it) whenever you need to contact MakeMusic. If you really needed a "valid serial number" to unlock the program, all of this copy protection stuff would be moot, a that would already be a pretty viable copy protection scheme. ------------- Brad Beyenhof [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
