Is there an attorney in the house? Official answer please

Hal9000

Newbie Joined: Jul 11, 2011 18:27 Messages: 5 Offline

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Jul 11, 2011 20:20

May I have an interpretation/translation of your license/novel

I have not installed PD9 yet.

I'm thinking of installing PD9 on my current (old) laptop, however if the performance is inadequate I will fork out the bucks to buy a (new) laptop and install it there instead.

The Question:
If I install on "old" will I be prevented from installing on "new"

In this forum I've seen conflicting answers to this:
one machine at a time VS. one installation

BTW, for those of you who would reply by asking me the obvious, if I'm aware of the trial software, I ask you, are you aware it cannot be patched to the current rev? In other words, the commercial CD is essentially BETA.

RobertJ/OZ

Senior Contributor Location: Melbourne Australia Joined: Aug 14, 2006 02:26 Messages: 1209 Offline

Jul 11, 2011 22:33

You are entitled to install the program on any computer, in accordance with the licence terms you can only install on ONE computer at a time, therefore if you remove from one machine you can install on another, Just remember that there is a limit on the number of activations, unfortunately CyberLink do not say what that limit is.

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Hal9000

Newbie Joined: Jul 11, 2011 18:27 Messages: 5 Offline

Jul 11, 2011 23:21

Thanks Robert.

From what you say I assume each install phones home via internet,
and occasionally someone in the forum reports exceeding the activations.

That works for me. I reconfigure often, but only one box.

BarryTheCrab

Senior Contributor Location: USA Joined: Nov 06, 2008 22:18 Messages: 6240 Offline

Jul 12, 2011 07:56

The number of installations also makes me wonder...with all the uninstalls and reinstalls often required for such complicated software, any NLE, really, if there is a limit, I have not reached it yet. Not in previous versions either. HP Envy Phoenix/4thGen i7-4770(4@3.4GHz~turbo>3.9)
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Bubba in TX

Senior Contributor Location: Central Texas Joined: Dec 12, 2009 21:32 Messages: 1332 Offline

Jul 12, 2011 09:40

Hal....

You have been in here enough to know bu now that no one in here works for CL, so why would you come up with an asinine title like:

"Is there an attorney in the house? Official answer please" and ask for an official interpretation of the licenses agreement....

Go to customer support for that question not here.

Now if you had wanted to know how many times you can reinstall PD9, just ask... "Hey, how many times can I install PD9 and not go over the limit?" and most of us would have said... "What limit? Theres a limit???"

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JL_JL

Senior Contributor Location: Arizona, USA Joined: Oct 01, 2006 20:01 Messages: 6091 Offline

Jul 12, 2011 10:32

Quote: and most of us would have said... "What limit? Theres a limit???"

Maybe the limit that is mentioned here.

Quote: OK, only two things I can suggest because multiple activations of a section will end up with a security lock out. The lock out happens when a PD key is activated on more than one computer or it passes the limit CyberLink have set because multiple re-installing has changed the PC's ID.

http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/15/15565.page#75905

Jeff