I think if this is the first time most have experienced trouble with Keyclone, then that's pretty good. I don't use it personally, but it does seem like a pretty solid piece of software.



That being said... Software key replication is a pretty important part to boxing. While I don't agree that you need to have a redundant server for validating keys, I think there should be a backup of some sort. Maybe have a heartbeat check in the program. Every hour, or two, it'll go out to check for the license. If it can't connect to the server, it won't return a "failure" of the check, but the hourly check will ensure that if you haven't paid for it, and the servers are running fine, you won't be able to use the software.



That would remove the frustration seen by legitimate customers, and limit "free" time to the so-called hackers to merely Down time + up to 1 hour of free Keyclone.



And like Blast3r and a few others mentioned. If people can write cracks to hack microsoft, adobe, and any other big piece of software, I highly doubt Keyclone is safe. So the inconvenience does tend to affect the paying, legitimate customers.



But I think my idea would actually prove to be rather useful.



I've been thinking about picking up Keyclone for awhile, but I still use hotkeynet for now. haha