I saw the message from them (if it was a legit one of course) and I barely remember it. I remember that they estimated some crazy amount of work hours needed to crack the new eLicenser and it was something like 1 or even 10 years (counting as work hours without breaks)Benutzername wrote: Tue Nov 09, 2021 5:22 pmAfter the last cracked Cubase version came along the cracking crew was asked to also work on the new version but they refused to do so. They said that the process of cracking the code was pretty easy but they had to patch out every single dongle call by hand. They didn't want to do it again because Steinberg had increased the dongle calls in the new version to an insane amount and that it wasn't worth the effort. The crackers wanted to prove that it is possible, not make a profit or feed the community with constant updates.pixel85 wrote: Sun Nov 07, 2021 4:25 pmIt depends. If they just replace the type of license but they keep the same amount of 'checkpoints', then it may change nothing. It will be even worst if it would be online check-out, especially on WIFI which would hit real-time performance a lot.LeVzi wrote: Sun Nov 07, 2021 12:59 pm I would even go as far as to see performance improvements from the dongle being removed. All depends what kind of security they implement. (I pray its not codemeter)
Of course, they promised an offline system and not so often check-outs online.
I remember this because we also used E-Licenser back in the day for our software and this story was one of the reasons why we stepped away from them for the follow up product. The other major reason was that almost half of the support tickets we had was about the dongle and Synchrosoft was no help at all.
I don't think that Steinberg will go from this to something simple that will be cracked within a few days, like virtually any other anti-piracy (and anti-consumer) system.
