NI should be feel obliged to support registering those old products through the Access app on principal. The latter is nothing less than theft, and is utterly deplorable and inexcusable.ĮDIT: BTW, the time between NI's direct promise to me and this announcement was less than two years. But it's quite another to deny activation for products one has paid for that would otherwise work just fine. It's one thing for a company to abandon support for older products to the point where they stop working (new OS's etc.). And of course it would be not only possible, but easy to simply liberate the libraries to bypass remote activation. There are clearly LOTS of people upset about this, including some Hollywood film scorers who say they're still using many of these libraries every day. How is Lucifer anyway? Tell him I said hi LOL. Yes you are playing the devil's advocate, to be sure. It would be interesting to know just how many people are still using any of these products in these older versions though. Or continue to work through back up by cloning drives. However most of these products are either painfully dated, or you can get modest cost upgrades to improve the actual products anyway (waiting for half price sales - and even those updates are starting to look old and crusty), or the oldests products could be installed without any online activation (see Glennbo post).
Personally I think their should be no time limit at all, where possible. Playing devil's advocate they didn't say they would do that permanently did they? - they did honour that for several years. For all current Native Instruments products, Service Center is no longer used and require activation with Native Access.įor products that support the use of Service Center and offline activation (legacy products and versions), yes it will be possible. They responded in the affirmative, and this is exactly what they said:įor products that use Service Center for activation on supported OS versions, this will be supported. When NI ended support for offline activation with Native Access, I wrote them specifically to ask whether this would apply retroactively to pre-Kontakt 5.6.8 libraries, and whether we could rely on continued support for those products that were purchased under the terms in place at the time of purchase.
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