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The spirit of the EULA of C1

picman2
I own a Macbook Pro and a Mac Pro each with a license for C1. It so happens that because of beta testing for audio software I have two startup disks in my Mac Pro. Depending on what I am doing I may start up the Mac with either disk. In both cases however I would like to be able to use C1 (without the hassle of restarting the mac or deactivating + reactivating). According to the EULA this should be perfectly possible and is perfectly legal, I am the only user and ... !! I can of course not start up my Mac with two different disks at the same time !! When I tried it however it failed so I asked support how to solve this. Their reply was that this was not possible (Part of the answer: "In regards to Capture One 6 - this requires new activation. And in regards to if it requires activation when you remove it between your different discs - this we cannot reject but also we cannot confirm this.Our R&D work on a continous basis in order to improve and secure our users invest ment in a way that other user will have more difficulties in cracking the software.")

I am sorry but I consider this totally incorrect. With EVERY other photo software I use it was either no problem or the company in question immediately and kindly allowed this (for an honest and paying customer!!) If every other company can protect their software in the proper way or show some leeway for their honest customers then why can't Phase One? With all the following it is no problem

DxO: kindly allowed it
Phototools: kindly allowed it
Imagenomic: kindly allowed it
Aperture: no problem
Lightroom: no problem
Photoshop CS5: no problem
Noise Ninja: no problem

Capture One: CANNOT DO!

Cheers, Bob.
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  • Drew Altdo
    All you need to do is Deactivate from one and then Activate on the other.

    http://www.phaseone.com/en/search/artic ... nguageid=1
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  • picman2
    Drew, yes I knew that, but it is a hassle. Depending on what I am doing I may have started up the Mac from either disk. If that happens to be the disk without C1 and I want to do something in C1 without switching to the other disk then you have to to the following: close all, choose other startup disk, restart mac, open C1, deactivate C1, close all, restart mac again with other disk, start C1, activate C1. That easily takes 10 minutes. Beta testing involves carefully distributing your various version of software and operating systems and hence is already a hassle in itself which you do not want to have aggravated by extra and avoidable hassle.

    However I am happy to say that in the meantime Phase One has found me a solution.

    Best regards, Bob.
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