Re: [Finale] More on copy protection - Finale 2004 licenses

2005-03-24 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
d. collins wrote: Still, it would be nice to know what the official version is: does our licence allow us or not to keep old versions running (and hence continue to get the codes) after upgrading? Has anyone asked? Yes, I have asked. Yes it does; the reason is the lack of ability to write files

Re: [Finale] More on copy protection - Finale 2004 licenses

2005-03-24 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 24 Mar 2005, at 9:50 AM, d. collins wrote: Christopher Smith écrit: My experience agrees with Hiro's. MakeMusic has been very quick, understanding, and responsive to all my calls and emails relating to registration. Still, it would be nice to know what the official version is: does our licenc

Re: [Finale] More on copy protection - Finale 2004 licenses

2005-03-24 Thread Christopher Smith
On Mar 23, 2005, at 5:40 PM, A-NO-NE Music wrote: dhbailey / 05.3.23 / 05:34 PM wrote: Matthew is in Australia -- perhaps all activation codes have to go through the local distributor. Coda has been responding to auth issues via email to me rather quickly, and I have been very impressed. I move m

Re: [Finale] More on copy protection - Finale 2004 licenses

2005-03-23 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Matthew Hindson wrote: So then I ring the friendly, supportive distributor to try to get a replacement code for Finale 2004. However because I'm in the system as having upgraded to Finale 2005, apparently it's impossible to give me a new key for Finale 2004. So now my copy of Finale 2004 is un

Re: [Finale] More on copy protection - Finale 2004 licenses

2005-03-23 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 23 Mar 2005, at 5:52 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: I haven't read the upgrade EULA, but that's the way it works for upgrades to Microsoft products -- the upgrade voids your license for the old version. That's not how it works for Finale -- never has been. (And there would a full-scale user revolt i

Re: [Finale] More on copy protection - Finale 2004 licenses

2005-03-23 Thread David W. Fenton
On 24 Mar 2005 at 8:06, Matthew Hindson Fastmail Account wrote: > At the risk of seeming unnecessarily incendiary (I'm not! Promise!), I > wonder if anyone else has come across this issue before. > > I recently upgraded to Finale 2005, and also got a new G5. I used the > automatic transfer featu

Re: [Finale] More on copy protection - Finale 2004 licenses

2005-03-23 Thread A-NO-NE Music
dhbailey / 05.3.23 / 05:34 PM wrote: >Matthew is in Australia -- perhaps all activation codes have to go >through the local distributor. Coda has been responding to auth issues via email to me rather quickly, and I have been very impressed. I move many computers around, y'know :-) -- - Hir

Re: [Finale] More on copy protection - Finale 2004 licenses

2005-03-23 Thread dhbailey
Darcy James Argue wrote: Hey Matthew, Hold on a minute: So then I ring the friendly, supportive distributor Why did you contact the distributor? What do they have to do with anything? To the best of my knowlege, Coda handles all activation codes directly. Your distributor shouldn't have anyth

Re: [Finale] More on copy protection - Finale 2004 licenses

2005-03-23 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hey Matthew, Hold on a minute: So then I ring the friendly, supportive distributor Why did you contact the distributor? What do they have to do with anything? To the best of my knowlege, Coda handles all activation codes directly. Your distributor shouldn't have anything to do with it, right?

Re: [Finale] More on copy protection - Finale 2004 licenses

2005-03-23 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 23 Mar 2005, at 4:06 PM, Matthew Hindson Fastmail Account wrote: However because I'm in the system as having upgraded to Finale 2005, apparently it's impossible to give me a new key for Finale 2004. That's not true. I don't know who told you that, but that's absolutely not true. When I insta

[Finale] More on copy protection - Finale 2004 licenses

2005-03-23 Thread Matthew Hindson Fastmail Account
At the risk of seeming unnecessarily incendiary (I'm not! Promise!), I wonder if anyone else has come across this issue before. I recently upgraded to Finale 2005, and also got a new G5. I used the automatic transfer feature of the G5 to swap all of my files and applications from the eMac to t