Der nächste bitte, anbei eine Quote aus dem AVSIM-Forum. AVSIM loescht sowas relativ schnell, weil sie Auseinandersetztungen mit Dickens/Small und co vermeiden wollen.
http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?...d=300210&page=
Ein uber 60jähriger Simmer, mal eben alle FSD-Flugzeuge aus seiner Virtual Airline gesperrt :
A member of my VA has recently had his system trashed (entire XP operating system) due to a supposedly illegal KeyGen (as FSD calls it). This individual (who is offline trying to rebuild his system) purchased the 337 Skymaster which he installed on his new 3GHz system, followed by the OV1 update. His new upgrade refused to load so he responded to FSD for help. They sent a "fix tool" (perhaps the .exe file referred to in a Jan 2005 post here?) which then totally trashed his registry and brought his computer down. He reinstalled the OS and FS and began trying to re-install his collection of FSD aircraft which are now all disabled and will not load. So he is reformatting and starting over yet again.
In the meantime, in seeking assistance from FSD, he received a very nasty reply from Steve Small stating in no uncertain terms that he had used an illegal KeyGen, tried to hack the KeyGen, or had done something else "illegal" which has screwed up his registry. Here is part of that response:
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"The previous use of an illegal KeyGen device on your computer - either by you or by someone with access to your computer - is the cause of the problem. There is, unfortunately, precisely zero technical uncertainty as to whether this illegal device has been used on your computer, or not. This device absolutely, positively was used on your computer. The consequences for users who elect to use this illegal device are invariably inconvenient when customers elect to mixture legally acquired and illegally hacked/installed FSD software. At some point the two incompatible (legal, hacked)installations technically conflict as they have on this occasion."
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This individual is a dedicated simmer, over 60 years of age, no snot nosed kid swapping payware with his buddies. He buys hundreds of dollars of software from vendors every year for his system. His 337 worked fine, so obviously that was "legal". To suggest that he would hack a KeyGen for a measly upgrade is absurd. His wife does not use the computer, which is a dedicated flight sim machine. He has no children or grandchildren. The response to a faithful customer with numerous (prevously) working FSD products is totally unreasonable.
Rather than working with this person to verify and repair his legitimate KeyGen, FSD has not only abandoned him, but has now alienated his entire VA from FSD products. I have just uninstalled 3 of my own and will not subject the safety and integrity of my computer to the irrational whims of defective embedded copy protection schemes. I respect vendors for trying to protect their investments, but to assume that the customer is always wrong will never endure. It would have been terribly simple for FSD to verify this person as a legitimate paying customer rather than teeing off on him for what they believe is illegal hacking. If I had to bet, I'd say that their registry tracking got screwed up during the swap to his new computer when, perhaps, his aircraft were re-installed in a different sequence than originally? Don't care anymore......no one deserves these accusations without cause. This can be, apparently, dangerous software to load on your computer, and FSD, despite previous cudos, no longer seems to care.