Ebay Sales of Sonar copies??

ORIGINAL: PCantillon

I know this is an old topic, but Cakewalk sales recommend I buy a second hand copy from ebay back in March of last year. The reason being it was no longer carried by Cakewalk (I wanted a version to run on Windows 98SE - 1.3.1 or 2.2 or whatever. Doesn't that rather contradict their stance of not transeferring ownership ?

Not sure it matters now, as I bought 1.0 and downloaded the patches to get ver 1.3.1 on EBAY, as they suggested.

Does Cakewalk care if you buy it on eBay? Look at these links:

Sonar 4 on eBay

Sonar 5 on eBay


These folks are selling dozens of these! Check the auctions associated with their feedback. To make matters more interesting, they are copies, not old originals – I verified this with the sellers themselves.

You would think if Cakewalk (Twelve Tones) cared about such activity they would stop it.

Perhaps they feel the inability to upgrade and receive tech support is sufficient.
Why else would they tell a user to buy it on eBay??