Quote Originally Posted by 'Xzin',index.php?page=Thread&postID=37735#post3773 5
I can't say I disagree with the phoning home part but I have not tested KC personally either, being a hardware only boxer. Therefore, I don't use KC although I see its utility. I would prefer it not phone home either.... but are you sure it is phoning home (out to the Internet) and not simply trying to connect to itself - it after all is server client based, is it not?
Yep, it basically starts up every time "unlicensed" and phones home to request it's license. I can understand trying to prevent theft and unpaid use but there's got to be a better way. I own Vegas and the only time it requires to phone home is during initial installation when I've wiped my system and reloaded everything. Beyond that it happily runs after I block it. Other software I have purchased also follows that same method. Keyclone works well when it works and it's easy to get started with it. The recent disconnect problem I'm sure will get fixed.

Last night I did get Octopus running and am still learning the ins and outs of it by playing around with it. A few things I don't understand about it yet but I'm sure I will eventually.

In the end I would really rather hardware multi box but right now after pricing everything I don't think I could swing it until 2009 and don't really want to build halfway clone machines that I'm not going to really be happy with.