Originally Posted by: William 
"How many of VSL's customer base are really that shady? I doubt most serious composers would want some random (or friend) to have access to their user area (passwords etc) and use their licences so that seems utterly ridiculous." - simon hanna
I would like the hostile, adversarial posters of this, and many other similar threads, to do one thing - tell how they would deal with stolen/lost licenses. In detail. To rule out theft on a regular basis. The fact is, there is no way to distinguish between someone who has lost - or had stolen - a dongle, and someone who just wants another license for free. If your dongle is stolen - you are screwed. It is the same thing as if you bought some stuff at a store, and somebody stole it - would you then go to the store and demand your money back? Then be outraged when you didn't get 100% back? They would laugh you out of the store. But that is EXACTLY what you are doing right here.
The people who write these threads need to come to a basic realization: many people are thieves, and they cause the problems. Not the people who have goods that are stolen - which these postersare blaming.
Your post is ridiculous. FIrstly we are talking about software and licences not something physical.
Secondly we dont need to explain how to recover a licence because literally every other sample company has a system of recovery without charging customers again.
VSL continually claim they are a small company and piracy would ruin them yet 8dio, orchestral tools, spectrasonic audiobro etc all require no dongle and are i would imagine, are comparitively "small".