As the world progresses and bitTorrent gets bigger, along with the undernet, security/accountability becomes more and more of a concern. Prior to required activation many versions of BB could be posted and downloaded/ran by hundreds of users. That is not a good business practice eventually.

Having PatX activate it on 5 machines sharing a single IP (obviously your home network) is much different than 50 copies all reporting a different IP (all 100s of miles apart).. or an establishment running 30 copies on various machines .. or ..
They needed to implement 'something' just to keep track.
PGMusic figured 3 was fair. I have no problem with that. Yes the old license said 1, but there was no enforcement.

They've also stated they can assist if more are needed. What more do you want?

I'll be honest; prior to activation I had PT/RB on 4 machines here, and one at the studio. They never ran at the same time, which implies I could go through the trouble of uninstalling it on system A to use on C, then removing it on system C to use on B etc
PGMusic is very gracious in license use .. they don't want to force you to remove/re-install constantly. So if you are honest with them they are very likely to accommodate.
None of the above is sanctioned by PGMusic, only rharv personal experience in the many years I've used their products.


I do not work here, but the benefits are still awesome
Make your sound your own!