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Old 08-08-2018, 11:51 PM   #23
enroe
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Quasar
The right to have a private, offline creative workstation
is inherent and fundamental.
Quote:
Originally Posted by enroe View Post
True!

It is a principle of freedom that gets violated here,

... independent of the assumption "that a short internet-
connection just for activation would or wouldn't harm
the DAW-system."
Let's have ...

... a further look on this issue:

Native Instruments didn't violate any law when they
decided to cancel their offline-activation mode.

More than that: It is fully legal to adapt their processes
for the benefit of the company. In this case NI
have simplified their activation process - and they
have optimized their registry protection.

But on the other side ...

... there is a fishy smell, because NI do have a
quasy-monopoly: They have the market leading
sampler "Kontakt" - and many many other
companies constructed sample-sets based on
their Kontakt-software. With their step of canceling
the offline-activation they force not only all their
customers to follow - they also force all the third-
party companies to do this step also and cancel
offline activation for their Kontakt-based products.

You may object that canceling the offline-activation
concerns future purchases and customers only. Yes,
but in the consideration of software products it cuts
the product update line for bugfixes of existing
products. And we have to state that investing in
a complex software the customer does not only
buy a single software at a fix date. He also invests
and trusts into a whole product-line including
bugfixes, potential updates and the evolution of a
product.

IMO here is a legal loophole. Any major change of
the "terms and conditions" in case of a monopolist
must be regulated.

On 27 February 2008, the EU fined Microsoft €899
million (US$1.44 billion) for failure to comply with the
March 2004 antitrust decision. Reason: Microsoft
blocked competing browsers of other companies -
they abused their monopole.

In 2018 the EU fined Google €4.34 billion for illegal
practices regarding Android mobile devices to
strengthen dominance of Google's search engine.

IMO a similar fine should be put on NI for breaching
antitrust rules. This fine must be enunciated by the
EU or by responsible cartel authorities. But I think
this won't happen because all in all NI is too small
and their monopole only covers an alcove of music
production. So NI will manage to get by only because
they act on a small niche market area, which is
not in focus of politics and cartel authorities.
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