I think the VST author and the DRM vendor are different people and the author is poking fun at the latter. It’s possible that the VST author isn’t aware that the fancy DRM protection they paid for doesn’t cover runtime.
I think the VST author knew that fine, but they figured that:
1) Protecting the installer will take care of most casual piracy
2) Protecting the VST might lead to unpredictable performance and issues on something that needs to run in real-time
So they chose to only protect the installer, which seems like a very user-friendly choice. I both enjoyed the writeup and want to second supporting the developer by buying a license.
That’s also possible, and even if that were the case I don’t see how this article is even tangentially saying that the VST author is a bad person or toxic or whatever the comment I was responding to mentioned.
It’s kind of a rote “this is a bad implementation” post that’s pretty obviously about the DRM vendor and not the guy that made a bass boost plugin for djs or whatever it is.
1) Protecting the installer will take care of most casual piracy
2) Protecting the VST might lead to unpredictable performance and issues on something that needs to run in real-time
So they chose to only protect the installer, which seems like a very user-friendly choice. I both enjoyed the writeup and want to second supporting the developer by buying a license.