I wouldn't either bet on thatrobotmonkey wrote:Ironically enough, the only time I have seen this happen in reality is when Adobe turned off it activation servers for CS2 and Audition. They, of all companies, had a decency to release a new version of the software that did not need online activation.deft_bonz wrote: I think easier and better in such a situation would be to launch a "free" version that ever body can download, and nobody would have any hassles later. E.g. turn off any protections. For the paying customers this would be of course a nice clean head shot but still better this way than having software that doesn't work at all any longer
But otherwise I have seen plenty of software and games vanish into thin air just like that. Many developers have said that don't worry about our copy protection, if we go down, we will remove it. For some reason I just can't feel so sure about it.
But "I have a dream..."