Maya on ebay?

[Jozvex]

It's illegal. Harsh but true. If they are even real copies, you still need to go through Aliasdesk to do a license transfer to make it legal.

[Karlfucious]

So I cant just buy a license from ebay and activate it through auto desk? They claim that its in the sealed box and hasent been activated yet. There is also another listing for only about 35 bucks, acually 22 pounds that says that it was a downloaded version on a backup and it has all the activation keys but that one sounds extreamly fishy to me so Ill pass on that one. The one Im watching is up to about $200 and only has a few hours left.

[Venkman]

So I cant just buy a license from ebay and activate it through auto desk? They claim that its in the sealed box and hasent been activated yet. There is also another listing for only about 35 bucks, acually 22 pounds that says that it was a downloaded version on a backup and it has all the activation keys but that one sounds extreamly fishy to me so Ill pass on that one. The one Im watching is up to about $200 and only has a few hours left.

Maya Complete is about $2000. At only $200 it sounds too good to be true.

That old saying: If it sounds too good to be true, it is.

Don't buy that. Report it to eBay. Chances are you may just screw yourself out of some money.

[Karlfucious]

Acually its the boss's money lol. I just called Autodesk and they said that anything sold without a reseller is an illegal copy. Im glad when I bought my copy it was from Alias because I dont want autodesk to have any of my money lol jk. Im kind of hesitant of buying anything from auto desk either because they sold my boss on some crappy subscription for 3 seats of arch desktop for like 2 grand a year. Woo hoo 2 grand a year for the exact same software with a diffrent colored splash screen and colored crossing windows. Thanks for the help everyone.

[Endymon]

I just called Autodesk and they said that anything sold without a reseller is an illegal copy.

I thought by WTO standards that you cannot put restrictions like that ?

If I buy a new Maya 7 Unlimited copy - it sits in my closet I never use it and then decide to sell it - it's illegal?

Think not !

[Kabab]

Yes because when you bought it you agreed to the T&C which says license is not transferable.

[mech7]

But are those T&C legal in every country? I seriously doubt it.

[Kabab]

Well you can always take Autodesk to Court in every country its sold in :)

I don't like your chances but...

[Randolph]

It's an old trick: if you "buy" Maya at Ebay, you'll get the CDs but not the licenses. Selling just the CDs isn't illegal (as I think), as long as they're "official" CDs and no Made-in-Chinas.

And: if parts of the T&C doesn't comply with the local laws, these parts are just invalid. And you won't have to take Autodesk to court, because the local bench will know about this matter and transfer your license.

[Karlfucious]

Im shure if it was still alias they probably wouldnt be nearly as bad as autodesk. At the same time thats probably the reason why they got bought out by autodesk because alias isnt nearly as good at sucking money out of the poor people who use their products.

[john_homer]

Im shure if it was still alias they probably wouldnt be nearly as bad as autodesk.

really? what makes you so sure??
the fact that alias has exactly the same policy for the entire time (about 8 years) they sold Maya?

the fact is you are paying for a licence, not a disk.
you can pay for a disk if you like, but really its no different from downloading it. you still have to pay for a licence to use it commercially (else get PLE for free) and licences are not transferable. just like lots of things.

.j

[madmanmagic]

Can I sell my Workstation with Maya Unlimited 5.5? I have the dongle, it's all set up and running. You can't upgrade it, but Maya 5.5 is good enough to do it all.
Also I have a decent 3DLabs Wildcat in my machine, which is an IBM Intellistation.

Advise.
thanks
dc

[john_homer]

Can I sell my Workstation with Maya Unlimited 5.5? I have the dongle, it's all set up and running.

probably not... you would need to talk to autoDesk.

the only legal way I know of is to sell the company that owns the licence.

it may be possible to do what you ask.. but it wont be free.

.j

[madmanmagic]

Well I guess that means AutoDesk drags a net on eBay everyday - looking for Maya sellers? So that's what Craigslist is for? I suppose they drag the lake on Craigslist?

[AndrewRaZ]

if licenses were transferable, they wouldn't be able to stop people from buying a $200 disk on ebay and then calling up the parent company and saying they want to upgrade. games don't have to worry about that, because they don't have versions to upgrade. the reason the software is so expensive is because of all the research and development that goes into it (ten years of it before Maya 1.0 was released), as well as the fact that you are using *their* product to make a product which will provide *you* with money. other things use royalties, but Alias and Autodesk don't want to mess with that on an individual basis, so they charge a flat fee. and Microsoft doesn't charge such prices for word and excell because a). they can't tell who is going to use it to type up a paper for school versus writing a book to be published, and b.) their software doesn't require engineers with 2 PhD's and knowlege of discreet quaterion mathmatics and how to rotate an object on three axis at once with predictable results.

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