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CHAPTER 3. UNLOCKING LIVE 11
technical support to help you get back your serial number if you lose it is via your registration
data. Therefore, please register your product
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, as otherwise you might lose your property!
3.2 Step 2: Unlocking Live
The second step of authorizing Live is called unlocking. Unlocking means associating your
serial number with a specic computer. Please be aware that the standard Live license grants
you the right to use Live on only one computer at a time. You can, however, unlock Live
with your serial number more than once under the legal and technical conditions described
later.
3.2.1 The Unlock Key
For unlocking, you require an unlock key that can only be created by the Ableton server.
Unlocking therefore requires access to the Internet. The computer from which you connect
to the Internet does not have to be the same computer for which you wish to unlock Live,
but it does make things easier.
3.2.2 The Challenge Code
The Ableton server creates the unlock key from your serial number and a so-called challenge
code. The challenge code is a ngerprint that Live takes of your computer's components.
For details, please see the corresponding section.
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http://www.ableton.com/register