hey stekker here from amigo chiming in,
to clarify some concerns, yes the next big update will use a licence key to combat the vast amount of piracy because sadly even tough we want to make it cheap and available for anyone on any budget a simple search gives tons of websites spreading it illegally.
the 3 times refers to 3 machine ID's so you can reinstall and reuse on the same machine as many times as u want even when u completely reinstall your OS it will not count towards a new activation. ( and even if you happen to max out those 3 and just send us a nice email that maybe u just got a new computer we will be more than glad to grant u another activation or two )
3 to us seems like a fair number of machines and realistic to have maybe a laptop, desktop and potentially a future computer, studio computer, work computer and so on.
as far as Challenge and response goes, i don't think many here seem to understand that a licence key with zero C/R would not do anything at all to stop piracy, a 1000 people could just use the exact same key over and over if there is no form of C/R in place so this makes no sense in terms of being a developer.
the C/R we will be implementing will be only needed when doing the first activation, once activated Amigo will generate a local file and will never need to be connected ever again and is not continually pinging any server or anything like that.
on the concerns in terms of " what if we go bankrupt or quit in 10 years, i still want to use my plugin and be able to activate it " and all these speculations, if that ever does happen we 100% will release amigo for free + licence free as indeed that is a frustrating thing but we are fully aware of such concerns. even me personally i have used many retro plugins which are not usable anymore because of their C/R servers being long gone and offline.
hope that clarifies a bit,
cheers stekker
to clarify some concerns, yes the next big update will use a licence key to combat the vast amount of piracy because sadly even tough we want to make it cheap and available for anyone on any budget a simple search gives tons of websites spreading it illegally.
the 3 times refers to 3 machine ID's so you can reinstall and reuse on the same machine as many times as u want even when u completely reinstall your OS it will not count towards a new activation. ( and even if you happen to max out those 3 and just send us a nice email that maybe u just got a new computer we will be more than glad to grant u another activation or two )
3 to us seems like a fair number of machines and realistic to have maybe a laptop, desktop and potentially a future computer, studio computer, work computer and so on.
as far as Challenge and response goes, i don't think many here seem to understand that a licence key with zero C/R would not do anything at all to stop piracy, a 1000 people could just use the exact same key over and over if there is no form of C/R in place so this makes no sense in terms of being a developer.
the C/R we will be implementing will be only needed when doing the first activation, once activated Amigo will generate a local file and will never need to be connected ever again and is not continually pinging any server or anything like that.
on the concerns in terms of " what if we go bankrupt or quit in 10 years, i still want to use my plugin and be able to activate it " and all these speculations, if that ever does happen we 100% will release amigo for free + licence free as indeed that is a frustrating thing but we are fully aware of such concerns. even me personally i have used many retro plugins which are not usable anymore because of their C/R servers being long gone and offline.
hope that clarifies a bit,
cheers stekker
Statistics: Posted by stekkermane — Wed Jun 19, 2024 8:55 am