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Originally Posted by drakewire  When you purchase any software that is non GPL as in the case of Waves it comes with a Non Transferable license, meaning you usually cant transfer it from one entity to the next without expressed permission from the copyright owner (waves)...
What you are talking out opens the whole intellectual property debate. Whether you borrow the Manley and use it is up to you, if your friend says you stole it from him, then I doubt the courts would care if you borrowed it and were going to give it back.
Waves is in a position where it can really start to make progress in an industry that has been outright over run with wide spread piracy on all sides of the isles.
I actually heard on another website, that Waves API has already been cracked and is being shared. This is ridiculous, as those software companies spend tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars creating the products only to be cracked and sold.
I am not really a supporter of Waves, but I am for stopping the piracy and illegal sharing of music that threatens the music industry.
BTW, I am not a new member of Gear Slutz...
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The end of the "first sale doctrine" is nigh. It's unfortunate that one can buy a $2000 Lexicon reverb, sell it in a few years to someone else and recoup part of the investment, whereas one can buy a $2000 Waves bundle and not do the same. It is my understanding that one can transfer licenses in PowerCore plugz and others; is Waves really marketing their product as non-transferable licenses? So you buy it for top-of-market prices (and from what I understand the sound quality justifies it), but can't ever off it if it's not what you need, or if a year later someone leaves you a rack of choice hardware in his/her will? That's too bad, if true.