That would make no sense, right? Urs timebombing his freebie? But yes indeed, It's fading away in front of my eyes. Upon opening it in a project, u can make maybe three knob twiddles, then it freezes, directs u to U-he website, and starts to slowly fade into black, graphically. Way to get those hackers, Urs!

 

what version?
what OS?
any other "unofficial" software / plugins installed?
any modification to your hosts file?

I take it you are asking here because there may be something you don't want u-he support knowing?

 

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Try blocking your DAW in your firewall rules.

 

maybe it is trying to tell you that it is 32 bit or PPC only. :D

 

Urs' April Fool timebomb, maybe. If it is, hats off to him because that's hilarious.

 

Voltsolette

 

I would look into that. Any other u-he stuff you might have "vaccinated".

About the possible April Fool joke, I prefer to think it's not the case.

 

if its an april fools joke, its not very funny really.

makes his whole business look like a joke

 

...aaand lack of efficient blocking of home-calling, maybe?

Sending out a freebie bot as a trojan horse to check an open, home-calling system for other products that have been cured.
Genius.

 

Maybe not as genius, as its plain stupidity to mix say cracked and legit u-he/tone2 etc etc

 

So it's still a genius move if it only happens to stupid people, right?

 

Timebomb is the term used to describe when cracked software wake up start asking for license. A free software can't timebomb. What you are experiencing is called a bug.

 

Correct about the term, but a "bug" that happens so far only to one user that has both legit and non together?
On a system that may have called out?

 

Zebralette and ZebraCM have a weird thing where they actually share 'registration' status with Zebra, so if your zebra timebombs then it'll take Zebralette and CM out with it.

That said, I checked all 3 versions of Zebralette, and both versions of ZebraCM on my system, and none have timebombed from the date, but then my Zebra hasn't either.

 

I get what you say. I see it more like a logical move.
That is if it actually only does that, to mess with non-legit versions.