^^This.SeedyLee wrote:Why don't Korg simply allow the same EXs to be registered on more than one Kronos with a fair-use limit (say, four devices)?
People who have spent their hard earned money on an expensive EXs are unlikely to distribute it illegally as it would reduce their ability to install in on future devices. I also wonder if the sales lost due to improper distribution of purchased libraries would be less than the increase in sales due to people feeling more comfortable in their purchase.
Here's an interesting thing: my home insurance company does not allow me to insure software purchases, arguing instead that backups should be made. Whilst I can always redownload an EXs, if my Kronos is stolen any backup essentially becomes defunct. If I have $1000 worth of EXs libraries, how can I insure against the loss of these if I lose access to the original device?
I thought about the "De-authorize" concept too, but don't see how that would work. The original authorize code would still work because the algorithm between the hardware id and the library id will still be the same. They can't change this algorithm in an OS update because it will break ALL previous authorizations meaning everyone will have to get new codes and re-authorize. That's a major nightmare for Korg. The other part is: How would Korg ever know you deauthorized it unless you sent them a screenshot for proof to get your new code(s)? Another headache I'm sure they wouldn't want to handle.
Relaxing the licensing rules via your account management on Korg's website makes the most sense by FAR.
All they have to do is see if your "2nd Kronos" or "New Kronos" happens to be registered to someone else and that solves that. If they try to get around it, one of two things will happen: Either if they ever try to register their own Kronos it will tell them it's already registered, or if they try to add it they will say that Kronos belongs to someone else and in both cases to Contact Korg. Further Korg would contact the other person to warn of fraud. Have fun with that.
A group of two or three people could try to share an account, but pretty unlikely I'd say. Would YOU take that chance on a multi-thousand dollar investment? I sure wouldn't!
