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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheAuldGrump" data-source="post: 3421099" data-attributes="member: 6957">You are right, I conflated your response and someone else's, not once but repeatedly. Sorry about that. (I did not reread the whole thread, but only read the newest responses, relying on fallible memory for the rest.)I really did not mind having to have the AB2 CD in the drive in order for the program to function - it remained easily portable, so I could bung it into the drive at work and use it, then take the CD home again. It is too bad that this did not work, though I do think that a unique CD key would net more sales than the current version of the license. And I do not blame the yearly license for AB3 on pirates, but rather on simple greed - LW wants to get paid for the same program every year. Bah. As for there being 4 pirates to every 1 purchased, my only concrete example is six players in my Mordheim group, all with legitimate copies of AB2, all bought from the same store. Not one of them has purchased AB3. (There would have been more, but LW upped the price before one of the players bought his copy, so he decided to skip it.) This is out of eight players who use computers for doing their lists - the remaining players use either a version of Access or a spreadsheet. And the six players who bought it are still quite happy with AB2.I disagree that LW was forced into this, and I have enough exposure to the stubbornness of human nature to doubt that they will switch back, even if they are losing sales. And as I stated before if LW was to do a unique CD key for each copy, I would be a lot more interested.As a side question, more of interest to others rather than myself, I have already made my own decision in the matter - is it possible to install the program to a thumb drive and port it from one computer to another, or is the DRM linked to the kernel? The Auld Grump</blockquote>

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