Problem was that the damaged guys were new customers. We tried to help.Armagibbon wrote:Hey if that's how it is, then I don't get why transfers aren't possible. I was reading the thread and picked up that you wouldn't allow license transfers because someone could use bogus info to buy it and sell it off cheap. Like you couldn't do anything about it after the fact? But if it works like you say, that stops it dead.Zaphod (giancarlo) wrote:Your suggestion is exactly the actual situation. Licenses are tied to accounts, in the way you describe.Armagibbon wrote:Simplest thing is to tie licenses to accounts and re-installing and updating prompts re-activation. Licenses live in the account and big daddy dev can decide whenever he wants to kill it. Like if the license was bought by some thieving shithead who sells it off to a patsy? That patsy now won't have a functioning license in their account because daddy was a responsible businessman who kept track of what licenses he sold and to whom so he can use a kill switch on that bad boy when shit hits the fan.
You don't even have to skirt the law to do it! Wowee what a bargain!
Even if licence transfers are legally enforced, iirc trading stolen goods is illegal everywhere in the same way. You surrender that shit and you're not entitled to compensation just because you paid for it. No stolen license for you! Gotta get your money back from the jackoff that stole it right?
I mean you know what licenses are the bad ones and you can just invalidate em. Some limp wristed douchenozzle steals paypal info and grabs a license? Boom. Turn it off and the guy who installs it misses out on all the updates and can never re-install without buying it legit. I dunno what the problem is...
We suspended the license transfer till the release of the new website because we didn't know about the law, but possibly it was because it was 2015, and the law problem was raised just recently, and in eu only. No problem to fix it. Like I said, we could fix it simply disabling license transfers in a legal way, but it was never in our mind to block them.