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|Company=Final Draft | |||
|StartDate=2025-01-15 | |||
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|Status=Unresolved | |||
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|Product=Final Draft 10 | |||
|ArticleType=Product | |||
|Type=Forced Migration, Forced Obsolescence, Ownership | |||
|Description=Owners of Final Draft 10 are unable to use their lifetime license as activation servers have been shutdown, with the alternative being a paid migration to Final Draft 13. | |||
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<!--Final Draft's Deactivation of Version 10: Software Ownership--> | <!--Final Draft's Deactivation of Version 10: Software Ownership--> | ||
Final Draft is an industry-standard screenwriting software. It announced in January 2025 that it was discontinuing activation services for Final Draft 10. | |||
==Details of the change== | ==Details of the change== | ||
Final Draft announced they would discontinue activation and deactivation capabilities for Version 10 on June 30, 2025. This change means: | Final Draft announced they would discontinue activation and deactivation capabilities for Version 10 on June 30, 2025. This change means:<ref>[[:File:Final Draft e-mail notice.pdf]] ([https://megalodon.jp/2026-0326-0242-41/https://consumerrights.wiki:443/images/1/14/Final_Draft_e-mail_notice.pdf Archived])</ref> | ||
*Users can't reinstall the software on new computers; | *Users can't reinstall the software on new computers; | ||
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A recent alternative for screenplays is the Markdown-like [https://fountain.io/ Fountain], an open standard supported by most screenwriting and production tools. However, Fountain cannot yet fully replace Final Draft files for production software, because text wrapping in Fountain is app-dependent, and page breaks are therefore not guaranteed to be consistent. | A recent alternative for screenplays is the Markdown-like [https://fountain.io/ Fountain], an open standard supported by most screenwriting and production tools. However, Fountain cannot yet fully replace Final Draft files for production software, because text wrapping in Fountain is app-dependent, and page breaks are therefore not guaranteed to be consistent. | ||
Some free and open-source multi-platform alternatives that one can use are [https://starc.app/ Story Architect] and [https://www.trelby.org/ Trelby], even though they may not fully replace Final Draft. Trelby supports Fountain as of Trelby version 2.4.<ref>https://fountain.io/apps/ ([http://web.archive.org/web/20260114074047/https://fountain.io/apps/ Archived])</ref> | |||
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==References== | ==References== | ||
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[[Category:Incidents]] | [[Category:Incidents]] | ||
[[Category:Remote deactivation]] | |||
[[Category:Planned obsolescence]] | |||
[[Category:Ownership revocation]] | |||