XXP5 discs being delivered

[slavelle]

For what it's worth to anyone new here: I've installed and uninstalled and rebuilt machines and had multiple partitions running my applications and I've not had any issues with activations. I'm absolutely certain that I rebuild things more often than is common and I still have not had to ask for new activations from Xara.

I have submitted things to Xara before through the ticket system and gotten responses, so I don't suppose this would be any different with a simple email and explaination.

It's also worth mentioning that if you use Xara for production tasks that would be interrupted should it not be available, you need to factor that in with the need to rebuild (or whatever it is that would make a new activation a requirement, like I said, I've not had a problem yet, so I don't know how much you have to do to trigger use). Have Xara installed and functional on another machine while you rebuild the first or make sure that you don't have any work to do for a few days because it invariably takes longer to make stuff work than you expect. This will leave you plenty of window to do things carefully and right. And if you have another system that can do your daily's, all the better.

Sorry to see a long-time customer so put out by what is a pretty innocuous protection scheme. Sure, I'd prefer there were none at all, but I also like them to keep the prices low, which this supposedly helps to do.

[ankhor]

Well, there is a possibility where you might get angry, your laptop fries
and you get a new one and you have no internet capabilities at your disposal.
How are you going to install it? But then you could keep a hacked version
as a back up in your HD not installed, which you could install in such an emergency?
(hmm better on DVD since my laptop fried, I keep forgetting that you can`t use your
HD then too )

I actually wonder, if I would download such a cracked version but also
had payed for that version to xara, would it be illegal to use/install it?
I have payed for the use of the program then.

And I also have reservations to this system. I have 2 japanese games
which use such a system, whichI wanted to reinstall, but couldn`t, because
they are out of business, so no way to get the new activation code.
Now I am not that worried about Xara going belly up, but still.

[steve.ledger]

I actually wonder, if I would download such a cracked version but also
had payed for that version to xara, would it be illegal to use/install it?

It's in breach of the EULA to 'hack' or alter their code. As a software licence holder, you are buying the licence to use their intellectual property (the software) not to hack it or use a hacked version for which you have no licence..
Any cracked version which has been altered to disable activation is illegal, therefore illegal to use.

I have payed for the use of the program then.

You have paid for the licence to use the un-hacked genuine copy from the developer or authorized reseller only.

[ankhor]

Okay thanks for the explanation.

[ankhor]

Well, I haven`t seen my disc yet, but atleast my unlock code is there.
Although they forgot to send me an e-mail, I looked in xaraonline.com and there it was, Now I wait for the disc

[Xcellent]

...as three installations is entirely unacceptable.

From what i've just discovered (and please correct me if I am wrong) - the CD version does not require online activation.

You have to enter the serial number (provided in your xara account online), and click on "No, i am already registered" - that's it. I installed Xara on a laptop which doesn't have internet connection and it works.

[bcire68]

I just moved to Europe a few weeks ago, and asked that Xara ship my CDs to Europe instead of the USA, and they assured me that they would be...

...My neighbor in the USA is now shipping my CDs to Germany for me.


Sigh* ....I guess I will just have to wait a week or two longer...

Eric

[ankhor]

Hmm you went to Germany, wilkommen

[bcire68]

Danke. Aber Ich bin jezt im Brussel.