Bill, re-read my post...

How can you explain the UAD-1 software NEVER being cracked?

And look, if the style is keyed to the arranger, the only person that could laboriously reassemble the style from MIDI would be the person that had actually bought it in the first place. Why would he even bother, to save someone ELSE a buck or two?

Sure, if you can give away a purchased style with no more effort than attaching it to an email, you are likely to do it. But if it takes HOURS of your time for each style (have you ever TRIED to recreate a style this way? It is by NO MEANS easy!), what is the incentive?

Look, this isn't the music industry, who are going to produce product even if it IS copied wholesale. This is a tiny industry, and the talented teams that make the ROM styles are NOT going to make any for general release in any quantity when there is so little revenue to be made. It's either this, or the NOTHING we are currently getting. Without protection there ARE no new styles to trade around. With protection, there would be styles available, and a low enough guaranteed price would remove the desire to even TRY to crack it.

You guys are still mired in thinking of this as simple software protection. Once again, I reiterate...

Hardware keyed protection is the toughest nut to crack.