No good deed...

Wanted to give Arturia's Jupiter recreation a try. So far I've demoed their Moog Modular and Prophet VS, which I liked but can live w/o.

After installing the softsynth and removing the previous trial licenses from my eLicenser, I was ready to authorize it when the aforementioned eLicenser informed that their was already an Arturia demo license on my virtual dongle and that there couldn't be more than one at a time.

Which is BS - I had 2 licenses for the above-mentioned products which I've demoed in the same period. After re-doing a maintenance and rebooting my computer, I asked a new license from Arturia, which was automatically generated and attempted to authorize again.

No luck, same error message despite the fact that there is no other license.

And it suddenly hits me that at least 3/4 of the issues I've had w/ software during the last 2 or 3 years were related to copy protection. Seriously. The software runs perfectly fine most of the time. 

And w/ this is mind, I'm starting to wonder how trouble-free things are for people who don't pay for their software...

You know what? To heck w/ them. I'm not putting $100 on a piece of software which could lose its authorization at any time and for which I'd have no mean of troubleshooting and fixing the issue myself.

I've slowly started to replace my iLok stuff as well - I could blame the issue on my hub when the iLok suddenly vanishes, but seriously, screw that. I've uninstalled Pro Tools and Cubase last week, anyway...

Rant off.