Joseph Hanna
Active member
It should not matter how many machines its loaded on as long as it was purchased legally.
Gosh....having had a close friend in the Bay Area who was writing code for DAW's in the early days before proper protection schemes and watching him lose, not only his business, but his home I can think of VERY little on Earth that I disagree with more than your stance here.
Most manufacturers currently are MORE than fair about their stance on piracy. Simply put the plug-ins can be used by the person who purchased the software on as many machines as he or she choses as long as the plug-in is in sole use on only one machine at a time. The rest, both by statute and IMHO ethically is theft.
A "mirror image" copy would not properly install the Waves copy protection scheme. Your friend may have given you what he or she described as a copy but if you were able to drag it into your Sonar world and they worked it was a crack, not a copy.
I'll be glad to help you with your other Pro Tools stuff but personally I have always and will always stay away from cracked plug-in discussions.
Sorry