can I give old program to a mate

johnnyboy wrote on 4/15/2009, 11:26 AM

Genuine question, I dont want to do anything illegal.

I have vegas studio platinum 8 on a CD with the serial numbers etc. Recently I upgraded to vegas 9 via the internet and downloaded the new software and was sent new serial numbers from sony via e mail. Is it OK now to give somebody the old vegas 8 cd with the original serial numbers for them to use?

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Ivan Lietaert wrote on 4/15/2009, 11:29 AM

This has been done before. You can contact offical sony support for this, and they will un-register your old software. I'm not sure you were entitled to an upgrade price in this situation, but let's have sony worry about that...

Chienworks wrote on 4/15/2009, 12:05 PM

Well, if he upgraded from 8 to 9, he was entitled to the upgrade price.

And yes, customer support will help you transfer the version 8 license to another person. They'll invalidate your serial number and issue a new serial number to the other person. No charge.

Note that the person you give the version 8 license to won't be eligible for upgrade pricing from that license.

johnnyboy wrote on 4/16/2009, 8:10 AM

thanx people, one other Q
the PC this will run on is an AMD 2600xp
750mb ram
Geforce 5200 VGA
100BG HD

Is this powerful enough to run VMS8?

Ivan Lietaert wrote on 4/16/2009, 8:45 AM

It will run ok, but rendering will take quite some time if you apply heavy effects, and I'd advise to add an external usb drive to the configuration. I used to run it on a portable that didn't even reach your friend's config.