Billy+ wrote: ↑10 Apr 2021
SoundObjects wrote: ↑10 Apr 2021
To work offline you probably also need to install Codemeter.
Definitely
It's been years since I became accustomed to the per-launch internet access.
This thread prompted me to figure it couldn't hurt to check out the modern approach to registering a computer.
Wow. A kernel extension? Hard pass. (And no I don't mean the kind that gets you backstage.)
I do have a USB key around here somewhere and maybe I'll dig it up now that my not-work machine is a desktop.
But I've heard those are not long for this world. Also sad if true.
I imagine there are customers and potential customers who flee the entire ecosystem due to this.
I hope RS have a credible spreadsheet somewhere that shows a favorable trade-off between piracy prevented and sales prevented.