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Dorico steinberg5/6/2023 There will be no offline allowance period: instead, once your software has been activated on your computer, it never needs to contact our activation servers again for you to be able to keep using it. We have decided to make significant changes in this area: for software purchased under a perpetual license, there will be no requirement for your computer to connect to our activation servers after initial activation. “Many users expressed concern about this approach, particularly on the grounds that software sold under a perpetual license should not have any kind of time limitation in its use. In an update announced on December 15, 2021, Steinberg PR manager Stefan Trowbridge acknowledged the concern that customers had about this approach, and announced a significant change: Once the software is initially activated, it does not need to contact the activation servers again in order for the software to be used. When this licensing system was first announced on November 10, Steinberg planned to have the Activation manager “phone home” periodically to allow the software to renew the 30-day activation. If you’re not online at any time after your initial activation, Dorico will run for 30 days without you needing to reconnect. The first time you run Dorico, the computer will contact Steinberg over the internet to check your license and activate your software, and, if your computer is connected to the internet, Dorico will “phone home” in the future to make sure that your license is up to date. When you download your purchased software - let’s say Dorico 4 - Steinberg will install a new Steinberg Activation Manager, which you can use to manage your licenses. Steinberg has issued a lengthy statement about Steinberg Licensing and produced an extensive series of FAQs, but the concept and process are not complicated. Originally slated for a release before the end of 2021, Daniel said today that Dorico 4 will now come in “early 2022, primarily to make sure that your first experience of using Steinberg Licensing is as seamless as possible.” Following the release of Dorico 4, Steinberg will release major versions of its other products, each of which will use the new system. In a blog post introducing the Steinberg Licensing system to Dorico users, Steinberg product marketing manager Daniel Spreadbury revealed that the first Steinberg product to use the new system will, in fact, be Dorico - Dorico 4, in particular. Called Steinberg Licensing, the new identity-based system will enable single-user activation on two computers three computers simultaneously, and will be managed by the user’s Steinberg ID account, instead of the current requirements of a USB key or separate licensing system. ![]() Steinberg today announced a successor to the eLicenser license management system that has been used by its software products for decades. ![]() In addition, in light of a licensing announcement made by Avid on December 16, 2021, we have reproduced our comparison table of the Avid and Dorico licensing systems within this article. This post was originally published on Novemand re-published on Decemto reflect significant changes made by Steinberg in response to customer feedback.
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