Well now Dave ... welcome to
Signs 101.
That's quite a reply! And it contains much that bends or ignores the facts and the primary point of the thread.
That primary point is that for the entire time I resold your product line, and I would assume for the entire time preceding that time, your products did not include an external print of the EULA and did not contain PDFs of the contents of the media disks. I feel confident that the overwhelming majority of your licensees are completely unaware of your no transfer policy and do not know they agreed to it. To this day you do not make your license available at your website and the only mention of the lack of transferability of your products is buried in your FAQ near the bottom of the list.
The simple facts are that while you include the restriction and now seek to enforce it, you very obviously do not make that information readily available to your licensees. The only logical reason why you would not do so is that you know it would cause a major loss of business.
The supposed printed documentation included in a few of your products are excellent brochures but are not much when it comes to providing much more than eye candy of installed work. They definitely will not make it as user guides and a catalog display of the contents of the collection.
You may recall that I suggested to you that I would be willing to create PDFs for my customers, submit them for your approval and then provide them as a value adding gesture. You turned me down cold.
As to a previous incident of illegal duplicates showing up here, I'll be happy to research it but I don't recall an incident of that proprotion happening here. I can only say that I have and have always had a zero tolerance for software piracy and that whatever the incident was, I would have acted immediately on proof of the crime.
Your statements regarding my references to other software products that allow and provide procedures for legal transfer of rights is totally off point. Whether they have the technology as a backup or not, all of those products provide procedures to transfer a license to a new licensee. You pretty much stand alone (except for Flame) in prohibiting transfers. And I understand your reasons. I simply take exception to them being neatly tucked away from view and left unknown to most until you decide to step in.
You have stated that because I am your competitor that this is what motivated me to create this thread. That's a diversion on your part and I made it clear in my opening post that I am in that role among others. It was not my reason however. The reason was that I resent you turning a friendly exchange of emails into a DMCA Takedown Notice. You asked me to delete the thread and I responded with a decline and my reasons. You then upped the ante with the notice.
So my response is that if you are going to require me to help enforce your license, then the details of that license should be made known to as many prospective licensees as possible. As a competitor I consider it a major selling point with the products we publish as compared to yours. But the reason for the thread is to call attention to your practices and policies as a service to my forum members and visitors.
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