If the answer is that 'perpetual' only means until the software provider no longer supports the registration of the product, then that should be stated in bold at the commencement of the contract / purchase, as that is not 'perpetual' in the normal use of the word. Just one thing that may be a consideration, IS it illegal to use a hack if the other party has already breached the contract by not enabling the license to continue perpetually?Īnd if they cannot keep the registration server running perpetually, surely they could give those who purchased the software a patch that permanently enables it? Or a replacement code for new software? Something? Dickens, Oliver Twist (published as serial, 1837-39) Bumble, ‘The law is a ass-a idiot.’ ” Charles J. Or maybe some less erudite wisdom would be in order: Continuing to use your lawfully-obtained perpetual license after a DRM server goes down by using some hack is merely malum prohibitum-and even then, more as a technicality than in the sense that driving through on a red light is malum prohibitum. Taking someone else's intellectual property (e.g., software) without paying for a license on terms to which its owner agrees is malum in se.

The ancient distinction is between malum in se (wrong in itself, inherently wrong) and malum prohibitum (wrong because it is prohibited, elliptically by a lawful authority).

It might be illegal, but it is not wrong in the sense of unethical or immoral to create or use some crack / hack to continue using software that you lawfully perpetually licensed, in essential conformity with that license.

If anybody wants to deal with this by finding an 'illegal' crack for the DRM. I'm not advocating it, because that would be wrong, but failure of DRM tech due solely to lack of resources on the mfr side.

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