Eric, Hoster security locks it to run on one computer. If you want to run the same Hoster on more than one computer, but only one at a time, you need to have a USB Ethernet module that you can unplug from one computer and plug into the other. If you have not used a USB module for your protection, we have a problem.
We have priced Hoster for use on a single computer. There are many users who want multiple copies of Hoster to run multiple shows simultaneously. We are counting on individual sales as well as their multiple sales to help fund the very large development expense we have incurred over the past 4 years.
Further, the thefts we have had in the past year (most of them in the UK) with our software appearing on crack sites has forced us to go to hardware based security that cannot be swapped with others.
Please read my post in the
KPro Help Forum addressing this point.
Bevis, your experience with us early on before we got our act together allowed you to circumvent our ill-formed corporate policies and get two Serial Numbers under the older scheme. You knew very well that you were violating our rules when you made your requests.
We are no different from other professional software companies who protect their investments. Maybe we are even a little more advanced than some.
So what is the outcome? Because each of copy of Hoster in use is paid for, we will have more income to continue adding features and providing support. If you don't agree with our right to be paid for each copy, I'll listen to you. However, after 32 years of developing and selling software, and being the first company in the world to load software from a flppy disc into a microcomputer (June, 1973) that started the "open architecture" design to run applications and upgrade the operating system, there isn't much I haven't heard already.
