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As sure as night follows day, the moment Sweden’s top music making software developer announces a new release, in this case, the internet sees a rise in people afflicted with a bad case of the stupid and we (those of us in music making circles, anyway) get inundated with posts, messages and diatribe on two, very distinct and never changing subjects. Why doesn’t Reason and/or Record support VST plug ins?. Why doesn’t Reason and/or Record support MIDI Out? A week last Tuesday, those two ever present gems were joined by another equally tedious question. Why is Reason and/or Record protected by a dongle? When, Reason’s audio focused sibling, was released, it was the first Propellerhead product to be protected by a dongle, or as the Props call it, an. Until then, they had predominantly used a printed licence key.

The product arrived with a credit card sized piece of plastic with which you unlocked the app once and then registered that licence directly with Propellerhead. Simple, unobtrusive and ever so easily cracked. Within days of a new Reason release, a cracked version would be available on-line. But still, Propellerhead still managed to carry on, selling enough units to stay in business and develop bigger and better products. I even heard tell once that one of their founders said of pirated copies of his software that he didn’t mind so much because the people who used those illegal versions probably wouldn’t have bought it at all in the first place and it was almost like a form of advertising or marketing. I’m not sure how true that story is, but I can certainly see the point behind it.

My experience with dongles dates back to the mid to late 90’s, when I first acquired my own copy of. Until then, I had used other people’s computers and sequencers or hardware. Inside the large blue box, apart from the CD-ROM’s and the hefty user manuals was a large dongle, designed to fit into the LPT port on your computer, with a socket on the end so you could still connect your printer.

You plugged it in, secured the screws, installed the software and off you went. Happy as Larry.

It never once got in your way and you forgot it was even there. A few years later, with the advent of Cubase SX, they changed to a USB dongle. This worked in a similar way except it installed a tiny bit of software to authorise the dongle, but again, that was it. Plug it in, leave it there and get on with the business of making music.

As time wore on, dongles became increasingly popular with manufacturers and much less so with users. And at this point, I could understand many of the gripes. Behind all the irrational paranoia of some people claiming intrusions on their privacy and rights (what rights???), there was the real problem that back then, most computers only came with, at best, four USB ports, max. Plug in a printer, keyboard and mouse and that one remaining port became incredibly precious all of a sudden. If you were running Cubase and then bought a VST instrument that needed a dongle, you were screwed. Thankfully, USB hubs started to proliferate and become incredibly cheap and soon these concerns became things of the past. I say that, but laptop users weren’t so lucky.

I mean, the whole point of a laptop is portability, but to then add a USB hub, especially one that might also need power and all of a sudden that lightweight studio set up isn’t so lightweight any more. But even so, hubs got smaller, some laptops even featured powered ports and there was probably a solution for most users out there. And eventually, a bit of common sense prevailed when manufacturers started using common dongle technology and the dongle manufacturers created dongles that could store multiple licences. So, that’s the history. Dongles have been with us for years, and their increased usage can only suggest three things. Dongles help protect the IP of the developer. They do not harm the income of the developer.

Dongles all but eradicate illegal copies of the protected software Face it, if dongles didn’t work, why are so many companies using them? No company is going to carry on doing something if their bottom line is suffering. That’s just not good business. Propellerhead Ignition Key And so, a week ago, the angry brigade poured onto the forums en mass and now they had a new enemy. Reason 6 was announced and Reason 6 was going to use the Ignition Key, just like Record 1.5 had done so successfully.

How do I know it’s a success? Go and find me a fully operational cracked copy of Record 1.5 that successfully eliminates the Ignition Key. And the people behind the Ignition Key, can. At the end of 2010, they offered 138 Chinese software developers, students, professors, and other high-tech gurus $15,000 dollars to crack their Codemeter system. They gave them four weeks to do it. Everyone went home empty handed 🙂 I rest my case. Someone posited last week that the reason (excuse the pun) that Record hadn’t been cracked was because it was unpopular and no one wanted to crack it!

Er, yeah, that’s why Reason 6 is, for all intents and purposes, Record but with the Reason name. So unsuccessful that Propellerheads have decided to make it its sole DAW product. Give me strength. I could, if I were so inclined, grab a gazillion quotes from these people, but trust me, go out and look on any electronic music forum, be it of or some such, you won’t be disappointed by the stupidity, idiocy and sheer ignorance of some people. Vast swathes of people (although I reckon in the grand scheme of things, they represent a tiny percentage of legitimate users) are posting all kinds of paranoid rubbish and complaining that their rights have been infringed. Some even dismiss the very reason (excuse more puns, none intended) behind the dongles existence by saying they don’t care about the “pirates” who use cracked and illegal software, “but please don’t punish me for being loyal and trustworthy”.

I asked a question on the Propellerhead forum the other day, asking for someone, anyone to give me a rational explanation as to why dongles are so bad. I’m still waiting for a rational reply, but with irrational people, the last thing you will ever get is a rational argument.

All I’ve had is wave after wave of “they don’t trust me anymore” or “dongles don’t work” or “They’re punishing legitimate users”. How can you expect a business to “trust” it’s users when some of it’s users fuck them over?

How can you say dongles don’t work when they clearly do?! And dongles punish illegitimate users. For fucks sake, how hard is it now to plug a USB stick in and forget about it? Some people are bemoaning the build quality of the dongle, saying it’s flimsy and breaks.

Others say that should they lose the dongle, they’re screwed. And others say it impedes the live use of the application it is designed to protect. Allow me to retort.

If the build quality is not good, the manufacturer should sort it under warranty. If you lose the dongle, apart from that being your own stupid fault,. If you are a professional musician, whose livelihood depends on you having a fully operational piece of equipment, you should have a redundancy plan.

Do drummers go gigging without a spare set of sticks? Do guitarists go out without a spare set of plectrums or strings? Do vocalists go out without a spare mic or ego (sorry, I can’t help but have a dig at front men/women!)? The answer is of course not. So why should you not have a spare Ignition Key? If it was €300, I’d understand, but €30 is nothing when considering lost earnings or credibility. Trust me, if I was gigging a laptop that needed a dongle, I’d have at least three.

You can also buy secure USB hubs where you can keep all your precious dongles in one, lockable receptacle that comes with it’s own tether But failing that, Propellerhead have other options. No Ignition Key? That’s ok, because as a legitimate, registered user, you can activate your session on-line. Takes a few seconds.

No internet connection? That’s covered as you can start the app in demo mode, have full functionality including saving, but you can’t open previously saved files or projects. Record Auth Screen So there are options. I’ve had an Ignition Key for a year now.

I forget I have it. It quietly protects my investment and the IP of Propellerhead. My music making is entirely unaffected and I can even install the software on to my laptop so that if inspiration strikes at work, and I have left my Ignition Key in the safety of my studio at home, I can authorise my session on-line and away I go. Of course, we all use these apps for different things and we all have different modus operandi, but surely you assessed the viability of the product before paying for it? Surely you saw the chosen protection system and made a decision based on that? Much like the fools who continuously bang on about Reason not being able to host VST plug ins.

Did you not read the box? Did you not read the thousands upon thousands of blog and forum posts that have quoted and reiterated the Propellerheads team who categorically shun plug ins, preferring a closed and infinitely more stable environment that has been successful for over 10 years?? I’m sorry, but why should any manufacturer who clearly states a product spec be held accountable for something an individual doesn’t particularly like? It’s a free market. You research your requirements, you research the available options and you make an informed choice.

And why oh why do these people feel the need to go on and on and on about it? Surely, if you don’t like something, go find something you DO like and get on with whatever it is you do! But oh no, this is the internet. Everyone has a voice and regardless of whether they are right or wrong, they’re gonna make sure we all hear them. Well, this is my response to you. Go and find something that DOES work for you, something that ticks all, or most, of your boxes.

I went through a number of DAW’s before deciding that Reason/Record was the one for me. And when you’ve found the ideal tool, that is dongle free, VST compatible and has MIDI out, channel your energy into making some music, FFS!!! Leave those of us who don’t care about MIDI out (although this is achievable, after a fashion, using the protocol, connecting Reason to another, VST comaptible DAW I favour ) and those of us who don’t want or need VST’s (although this again can be addressed by using the ReWire protocol to connect to a VST host) or those of us for whom a dongle is completely worthwhile and utterly unintrusive. Go and find YOUR tool, as we have found ours. K5, Dongles don’t work, eh? In what respect?

As in they don’t work in protecting the IP of the developer? A little clarity wouldn’t go amiss if you’re trying to counter my argument. Haven’t for years? That would be why back in the 80’s, companies like Steinberg were using dongles and still do to this day. Propellerheads have been using them for over 2 years and they will continue to do so with Reason 6.

Rather than having me ask why they, in your opinion, don’t work, how about asking yourself this question. If dongles don’t work, why would a company continue to use something that harms their sales and profitability?

It doesn’t make business sense for them to do so. So, clearly, they DO work.

As for any future article on who does or doesn’t buy Reason 6, being that it isn’t out for another 8 weeks, I will defer my response until at least 2012, unless of course, the Propellerhead’s world comes crashing down about their uber successful ears and they remove the dongle from all existing and future products. Not that I give a damn if they do or don’t as the dongle has never bothered me, nor many thousands of other users so far.

Not with Record, Reason 6 or the other dongle protected apps I have used over the last 25+ years. The only thing that needs to change is the paranoid attitudes of sheep like fearmongers who feel it more productive to bitch about something that makes no difference to their lives than channel that pent up energy into using the bloody products in the first place. Before you, or anyone decides to retort, may I ask that you come back with cast iron proof that dongles don’t work, such as sales figures, statements from companies that used to use dongles and now don’t for the specific reason of the fact they harmed sales, etc., etc. The only proof I need to say dongles aren’t as bad as you make out is the continued use and existence of the technology.

Bottom line is, if people don’t like apps that use dongles, don’t use them, find something else to use instead and go bitch about something a bit more important. Wow, it’s one thing for a consumer to complain about a product but you’ve taken the time to, basically, insult (“Shut up!”)those who are not happy with the Reason 6 required dongle usb key. You wonder why people complain? It’s a free market and consumers can sometimes determine the course of a product with buying power (or lack of) Also, it can serve as a warning to other potential buyers. Unfortunately, as a very happy Reason owner since version 1, I never expected them to implement something like this so I upgraded without much research. It’s my own fault. However, I can still do my bit to warn others.

I remember when Logic required a dongle but they were able to develop a work-around. My dongle failed twice and I had to wait for replacements while projects were on hold. I know plenty of traveling/ gigging Reason owners who don’t want the liability of losing a dongle and hoping there’s an internet connection at the club to play their sets. Uh, yeah, that’s real helpful.

“Failed Muso”? Well that explains your condescending attitude and insults towards others – just another bitter person in the world.

It’s my blog, my opinion so deal with it 🙂 Compared to the large number of vocal detractors of the dongle, of which you clearly are one, I am but a tiny whimper in a sea of insults, vulgarity and pure bile ridden vitriol that spouts forth from the mouths of people who feel so fucking hard done by because a company has the gall, the audacity to protect its intellectual property. Trust me, db, if you had created a piece of software that was being butt fucked out of business, you’d be straight on the phone to a company to help provide you with some protection. When, and only when, your own livelihood is at risk will you understand what it is to be the victim of theft on this scale. Logic has a better, more subtle dongle now. It’s called a Mac 😉 And you say you never expected Propellerhead to implement a dongle. Just because you bought one version of their software, you feel they owe you an explanation for what they do with another version? They owe you, and me, nothing.

Sweet fuck all. If you’re a travelling/gigging Reason user and you think the dongle is flaky, you’ve got a few options. Don’t use it. Put up and shut up. Simple, really.

As well as “Demo Mode” you also have the internet verification mode. Name me one product that is secure from theft yet gives its legitimate users that many options to get on and work. Oh, and the name calling. Very “original”. I am far from bitter, and if I was it’s not because I failed at anything.

Since creating this blog and it’s title, I have actually become more successful than you could ever imagine. Chances are, if you’re using a computer or piece of hardware to make music, I’ve probably had input into it. Heck, you might have been using some of my sounds for a long time! 🙂 And I like the paradox. I’m happy with it, but I don’t expect you to be. And I couldn’t care less. Name calling is the last resort of ignorance.

I’d have far more respect for your argument and post if you had the intelligence to come up with something far more clever than resorting to name calling. Hence the tone of this response to you 🙂 Have a nice day, won’t you xxx. What a stupid cocksucker article. Nobody talks about Reason 6 anymore, and I have discussed about it with tons (hundreds) of independant, professional or novice producersthey don’t give a shit and completely gave up Reason for Ableton Live. And you know why? Precisely because of the usb dongle, which you tried to rationalized why it’s good or okay to have one, you cocksucker.

Turns out it is not, and there is a reason why other companies don’t use it. It could be a matter of usb port, privacy or it could be even simplier, people don’t want to fucking have a usb dongle or have to be always connected to the internet for a fucking software, especially if they bought it. But the truth is simply, what most non-cocksucking hypocritical producers of music or software (yeah mainly these two ironically) learned with the Internet: if your product can’t be copied or pirated YOU ARE SIMPLY GOING TO SELL LESS, this is basic marketing.

Having a customer base and a good communication about your product is not simply about those who buy it, it’s about all those who will never buy it because they don’t have the money, are learning or casual users but will listen to/use it, share it and talk about it to make more people know about it, use it AND eventually buy it. Propellerhead simply cut all these people out of the circuit, which is the biggest dumb shit they ever done.

I’m ready to bet that Reason 6.5 is being released for this specific reason, and if Ableton 9 is good and crackable, bye bye Reason. Dude, I have read this reply to your post with growing disbelief. My reply will probably put you on your staggering horse again but chill and follow along.

First of all, I think it’s completely right what you post in your reply to Augure, but the tone of your article is asking to reply to you. You feel probably a don that you have a dongle, right? Like Reason 6 is not crackable, you can only use it without a dongle, right? Like no hacking crew was able to crack the fool proof security?

Well guess again fool, because we don’t need a crack! It’s build in in the free demo you can download from the Props site. There is a workaround (Google it yourself, smart ass), so the only thing I had to do was download the demo version and I can use it as a full version, saving, exporting, opening, the whole 9 yards. Now who’s a fool now?? This made just my day Sincerely.Dude, Good morning sir (yes, that’s what is known as a polite greeting.

I am not your “dude” 🙂 I saw this comment whilst out at dinner last night and almost spat out my fajitas as I tried to contain my copious laughter!! Allow me to explain why.I have read this reply to your post with growing disbelief. My reply will probably put you on your staggering horse again but chill and follow along.

Staggering horse? No idea what that actually means besides describing an equine beast with traction issues, but I will “chill”, as you say, and follow along.First of all, I think it’s completely right what you post in your reply to Augure, but the tone of your article is asking to reply to you.

Why thank you. And yes, I certainly do encourage debate and the exchange of opinions on here, so I welcome you taking the time to reply.You feel probably a don that you have a dongle, right? Nope, sorry you lost me there. All I can think of is that you were trying to say that I may believe that you personally don’t have a dongle, If so, then yes, you’re probably correct, or else why would you write the following.Like Reason 6 is not crackable, you can only use it without a dongle, right? Like no hacking crew was able to crack the fool proof security? Let’s answer those questions in order Yes, currently, Reason is not “crackable. Yes, you can only use it fully with a dongle No, no hacking crew has currently been able to crack the Codemeter security.Well guess again fool Woah, are you Mr.T?

I’m a HUGE fan!.because we don’t need a crack! It’s build in in the free demo you can download from the Props site. You’re right. Reason does have a free demo, freely available and well advertised on the Propellerhead site, and you don’t need a crack to use it, but it is just a demo, and therefore has limited functionality, more of which I will come to in a bit.There is a workaround (Google it yourself, smart ass), Well, I did, smart ass, and found nothing except spam and malware ridden links that don’t actually offer the solution you speak of. And I do believe the burden of proof is on you to supply evidence to the contrary, so please do go ahead and furnish me with this holy grail of information.so the only thing I had to do was download the demo version and I can use it as a full version, saving, exporting, opening, the whole 9 yards. Well, yes, you can download the demo, use it as a full version and yes, unlike many other products whose demos limit you to 30 minutes of use, or limited save functionality, Propellerheads have seen fit to let you use as much of the program as possible. However, you can’t open song files, export them to audio or use Rack Extensions.

So all those lovely tunes you create can’t be reopened until you buy a licence. Want to export your masterpiece (and I’m sure you’re a man who creates many a musical masterpiece) to share with the world?

Oops, sorry, no can do, unless you front up the cash for a licence. And how are you finding the amazing new addition of Rack Extension plug ins? Oh, wait sorry, you can’t use those either.

So no GForce Re-Tron for you. Or Korg Polysix. And you will never know the wonder of Predator RE, Polar, Edge Red, Echobode, Uhbik Q or Radical Piano. Never mind, eh? Sure, you could cobble together some way of manual recording audio via some other application but it is not a “workaround” as you put it.

A workaround, by definition, is a method or plan of action that can be used to achieve the same results by a different way of doing things. Sadly, you cannot achieve full Reason functionality without purchasing a full license and the using either the internet authorisation or the dongle, be it the Ignition Key or Balance unit.Now who’s a fool now?? But seriously, if you’re Mr.T, can I at least get your autograph? And those Snickers commercials awesome!.This made just my day Mine too 🙂.Sincerely. Good I think you will find it is Johnny B. A lot of venom and anger aimed at folks who would prefer not to deal with the dongle Not sure where this is all coming from, but some of us ARE legitimate users with a legitimate preference not to be encumbered with the dongle, and we wanted to share our opinion with the P-Heads. For that, we get maligned, scolded, and informed that we must be thieves or morons to not want the dongle.

I’m just pointing out that your diatribe is pretty wide-flung, and you are alienating some folks who you probably don’t intend to I’m a long-time Reason user (started with Version 1 in 2001) and one of the things I really enjoyed about using P-Heads products was that they seemed to be more concerned with promoting the culture of music-making, and those involved in it, working to improve Reason with every new release to be better, more powerful, and easier to use Then the dongle arrived in Record, and I among others took the time to express my displeasure to the P-Heads. No, it’s not Earth-shatteringly bad. No, it hasn’t (yet) prevented me from making music when I want to. No, I don’t like it, and yes, I find it an annoying encumbrance using a laptop with limited USB ports, and no, despite acknowledging that concern, you didn’t address any solution to it. Foam at the mouth if you must, but my respect for you has diminished a little as a result of this campaign against folks who don’t like the dongle. Just because it doesn’t bother you, that’s no reason to assume that it is not a legitimate annoyance to others.

Thanks for your time. Well, of course, that’s your prerogative and I don’t have a problem with that, but it still doesn’t explain the irrational hatred of the thing!

You say yourself it hasn’t prevented you from using the software as intended, and the reasons you give, such as diminished USB ports is not an issue at all. I don’t address a solution to that because I don’t believe there to be a problem. And nor do the people that have bought Reason and just get on and use it.

250% increase in sales does not demonstrate an unhappy user base. I do not believe it to be a legitimate annoyance because I have yet to be shown a legitimate reason. It really is as simple as that. And I am carrying out no campaign. The original piece was written well over a year ago. I merely expressed my view, backed up by fact, knowledge and reason (forgive the pun) and some people decide to jump in and become abusive. I can reply to them as I see fit, and if they open themselves up to ridicule, well, I’m going to call them out on it, because if they had spent some time composing a response that was more like yours, i.e.

Polite, respectful and thought through, there would be no need for me to call them out in the first place. Well, this is my blog, my corner of the internet, and you are perfectly welcome to voice your opinion here, so long as that opinion is an educated one, backed up by facts and a rational argument. If your respect for me has diminished, well, I can’t help that. I shan’t lose sleep over it, I’m afraid. If you dock people respect points because they express an informed opinion, whether it is aligned with your own or not, that is your choice. In my book, that gains them points.

The bottom line is, if you don’t like dongles and it impedes you that much, the choice is simple. Find something that fits your bill better.

But there is no need to lambast a company for trying to protect its intellectual property so that it may carry on developing cool toys for us to play with. At the end of the day, if their sales are 250% up AFTER introducing the Ignition Key, can you see them turning back? And no thank YOU for your time 🙂. As far as I see it, it’s “intellectual property” vs “intellectual potential” (of poor people). It seems like you don’t have money issues I my self am poor as fuck and have a place to stay due to generosity.

I make music, and have been doing so for a while. However I needed to learn how to make beats, because I decided to take an additional path in music.

After testing many soft wares, I found Reason to be the most intuitive, and thus I have torrented Reason 5. I’m a dedicated motherfucker so I find works around the lack of recording compatibility by using Audacity/recycle as a way to get things I play like, non virtually, onto the track. It’s not ideal by far.

But it works. If it wasn’t for torrents being around, I would never have had reason 5, never got to know Thor and the Matrix sequencers, and my good pal Dr.OctoRex and thus when I had made it as a musician in a torrentless world, I would never buy Reason.

So, in the end, they would have lost out. Now I’m still too poor to afford the software.

The price they sell this shit for. They are losing out cuz so many people would buy it if they could afford the damn thing. The dongle doesn’t make them more sales, it only limits those who can’t afford it. And adds burden to those who can afford it, an just don’t like it.

However, when I am in a position to buy the software, I will. And that is because an old version that could be torrented existed. You’ve given a few legit reasons as to why the dongle IS annoying. One, IT CAN BE LOST. Two, IT COSTS MONEY (a lot of money, for a fucking usb stick with a bit of coding).

Three, laptops (for those who have them) have limited USB sockets, splitters are far from ideal. If you really want to, and have money to buy extra stuff like usb splitter hub things. But again it’s not really ideal considering you’ve just spent £300 pound or so on the software. Four, if for X reason, you don’t have the dongle, you must rely on the internet. But a dedicated motherfucker can work around this shit, it’s just wasted energy. Thus people complain, and then you have people complaining about the complaining. The people complaining about reason’s dongle want to make music, but feel limited because they are poor or they bought it and don’t find it practical.

You are complaining because you aren’t limited and you don’t want to see how people are being limited, or accept anything they say as “quantifiable” or “legitimate”. You have a right to complain about that, as much as they had a right to complain.

But recognize that you are doing the exact same thing. Propellerheads have the right to go corporate lock down mode on the soft ware, people have the right to express their feelings about it. Glad it worked out for you, no reason to be condescending to others about it though. In the nicest possible way. Hopefully this may help give you insight onto a different perspective as your perspective on torrents seems to be taken from the loudest, but often most bullshit sources. Thanks for your comments. It still surprises me how, after all these years, and how after so much has changed and moved on, this article does seem to draw angry people out of the wood.

Anyway, back to your response. Property vs Potential, eh? I once thought along similar lines. I was very vocal on the subject of the democratization of music making and how modern technology was enabling so many more people to explore artistic endeavors. However, I never advocated the theft of property, physical or intellectual, to facilitate that democratization. It does always baffle me when people view software as different to physical products or appliances.

Before we had computers to help us make music, the only way to do so was to buy hardware. Real, physical hardware. There were no other choices, unless you built that stuff yourself. So, why is it, when a company builds some software, people feel entitled to have it for free, simply because it is an intangible thing?

I have often felt aggrieved that my financial status, or that of my parents many years ago, kept me from fully exploring music making. But this was the 1970s and 1980s and there was no other way, unless you completely lucked out and got funded by a school or had friends in high places. When my youngest sisters went to high school, and then university, things had changed immeasurably. Both of them had access to vast swathes of technology that didn’t exist when I was their age. My financial status had nothing to do with my views in the original article I posted 4 years ago.

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But, since you raised it, back then, I was heavily in debt, had two young children and a wife to support and was bringing home a less than modest salary. So, I think if we were to have a “poor-off”, we’d be fairly evenly matched. But, as I said, my wealth (or lack thereof) wasn’t the point here. Maybe it’s because of my upbringing, in a family of creatives (culinary and fashion) that I feel it is wrong to steal. And maybe because I grew up during the dawn of computer technology that I saw that in the same light as I saw other products and services.

Stealing is wrong and maybe you will only see that when people steal something of great value from you. Maybe, when you’ve finally achieved a financial status that you desire through the successful sale of your music, and some fucker comes along, copies your music and sticks it on a torrent site so that nobody has to pay for it, resulting in a loss of earnings for you and no food on your table, and bills mounting around you, you might just see what I’m saying. Chances are, that won’t happen, eh? 😉 When I was a kid, I needed to “make beats” too.

I yearned to be a drummer but had no money to buy drums. So I made my own practice pads out of place mats covered in upturned carpet. I studied, practiced and finally got behind a drum kit at school (an underfunded state school, before accusations to the contrary are thrown) where I fully realised my ability and dream to become a drummer. And today, you have software like Reason, an application that I’d have killed for back in the day, to explore your dreams and potential. But why is it ok to steal that? Because it’s digital code, an ethereal construct with no tangibility? Why does that seem to render software an acceptable target for thieves?

Did many, many people not slave hard and long into the night to create that? Did those people not have families to feed and bills to pay? If it wasn’t for torrents, you’d not have Reason 5. Well, I sure as hell couldn’t torrent a fucking drum kit in 1981, but I still managed to learn and become a drummer. Don’t hold up torrents as some kind of saviour. Why the fuck do you think you are entitled to have access to this stuff?

Because you are not. And neither am I. I always wanted to be a racing driver as a kid.

Can I torrent a go-kart? Of course I can’t.

Am I entitled to drive a racing car? If I want it, I have to go out and work hard for it. It is no different with software.

Except technology has made it easier for people to do it. But just because you can, does not mean you should. You say “in the end they would have lost out”. Who would, Propellerhead?

How do you figure that one out? The only thing they have lost out on is your single license purchase. I think, in the grand scheme of things, they’d survive without that. And given that you say you’re still too poor to afford the software, how are they losing out? I mean, through your theft, you’ve actually achieved nothing. All that time invested in learning how to use a stolen product has resulted in the square root of fuck all, apparently.

Their pricing is insane, you say? Well, firstly, they are still in business, still prospering and halfway to version 9, with loads more new features in version 8. Secondly, how do you reach that conclusion that the pricing is insane? Because you can’t afford it? Well in that case, Filet Mignon is priced insanely, because I can’t afford that either. Something is only truly worth what others are prepared to pay for it. And seemingly, enough people feel that the pricing is anything BUT insane, because they sell more copies than ever, and the business is still afloat, and booming it would seem.

Previous commenters have stated that Props would sell less. Facts show the complete opposite. The dongle, it would seem, works. Dongles aren’t annoying. Mine sit silently plugged in and I forget they’re even there. Yes, they can be lost.

Which is why I bought a spare. Which was cheap (less than €40). And anyway, in the last four years, Props have moved their protection system onwards, giving you three, flexible options. Hardware dongle, internet authorisation and software dongle. There’s something for everyone. Except thieves. And I have not seen or heard of a “dedicated motherfucker”, as you so put it, who has worked around that system yet (at this point, I anticipate you saying, “Yes they have” and therefore I ask you to prove it by directing me to a valid copy of Reason 7 or 8 that has been fully cracked and distributed).

We are ALL entitled to make music. But we are NOT entitled to steal products made by other people to make music with. Sure, you can express your displeasure, as many others have done here, but you’re still a thief, and an unsuccessful musician also, it would seem. And I have a right to call thieves out. I’m on the right side of morality here. I am as limited as many others, despite your presumption that, because I made comments about people stealing, I must be rich.

The only people that seem to be aggrieved at my comments are the thieves. The very people that caused companies like Propellerhead to bring in copy protection in the first place. You got burned and now you throw the toys out of your pram because the door on your theft has been shut. You are not entitled to have the software, and because of the lockdown instigated by Props all those years ago, your entitlement to the latest and greatest version of that software is impossibly out of reach for you.

And you’re pissed at that. Believe it or not, I am just now seeing your polite and well-thought response to my comment! Thank you for engaging, and I’m sorry I wasn’t able to convince you that there are (were) legitimate complaints about the dongle It’s moot now, because I am happily authorizing my version of Reason with my computer directly (and via internet when I’m trialing Rack Extensions), and no dongle in sight! I am grateful to the P-Heads for listening to users like myself and doing what they can to address our (legitimate) concerns.

Although the point is moot, the dongle was a problem because I was using a lptop PC with limited USB ports, and there were issues, even with USB port expanders, with too many things hanging off the machine, or jutting out at precarious angles, making the actuality of “portability” much less convenient and desirable than it should have been. I’m happy to see that P-Heads accepted my concerns and acknowledged the issue by providing other solutions.

This is the approach I have come to expect and admire from them. I just recently upgraded to V8.3, after holding off from V7, because again, I felt that P-Heads had implemented some things that did not align with the way I like to use Reason. I mentioned my complaints, and unsurprisingly, perhaps, they have again addressed my concerns! Kudos to Propellerhead software and I’m happy and proud to continue to be a Reason user!

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