If you have proof of purchase you should have no issues getting the activation lock removed by Apple Support. It’s mentioned in the official documentation and I’ve used it successfully.
I can't really tell whether you're being sincere, but you are still way out of line. You've been using emotionally charged language from the start, perhaps you should consider your motivations for engaging in this thread.
And yet, I've seen it crash systems as late as RHEL6u2. It certainly made me very cautious about using it on production systems, which was sort of the whole point.
The account submitting this story was created six days ago, and this is their only activity on HN so far. The credentials mentioned are old and the data in the claimed dump is from 2009. So far this seem highly implausible.
An interesting tidbit; the list is compiled by Greg Ercolano, author of the render queue software Rush[1], for which he received an Academy Award in 2011[2].
It's a great piece of software for the VFX/post-production industry, and he's by far the best software vendor I've
ever worked with.
Something similar happened at a company I work for; the account of the CEO suddenly becomes "temporarily unavailable".
I take their word for it and 12 hours pass and the account is still inaccessible. We're a paying customer, so I open up a ticket and it is eventually passed on to the "technical team".
I give them a call but they cannot offer any additional details nor any timeframe whatsoever when this will be resolved. Another 20 hours pass and my requests for any update go unanswered. Finally, after a total of 48 hours the account is available again. Still no update from Google.
Having been completely cut off for two working days, the CEO is now (correctly) questioning their use of Google Apps so I update my original ticket requesting any additional information they have that could assist me in justifying staying with the service. They tell me this will be forthcoming.
A week passes, no update. I reiterate my request and 10 hours later I'm told that the cause was a "server issue"...
Yes, you're likely thinking about the Aspera range of file transfer software which is quite popular within the film industry.
It's actually quite elegant; a control connection over SSH plus a custom UDP protocol (FASP) for data. It does work as advertised and has some nice features that are handy in production, but licensing is very expensive ($20K for point-to-point at 1gb/s).
