News Lamptron gets caught using counterfeit AIDA64 software keys with its LCD-equipped products

[Admin]

PC cooling manufacturer Lamptron has been discovered to be bundling illegal AIDA64 activation keys with most (if not all) of its LCD-equipped products, including air coolers and hardware monitoring displays.

Lamptron gets caught using counterfeit AIDA64 software keys with its LCD-equipped products : Read more

 

[peachpuff]

Chinese company?

 

[thestryker]

Chinese company?

Chinese company who bought a Western company's name! (I don't know the full history of the original company so I don't know if there was anything left of said company when the purchase happened)

 

[Sluggotg]

You guys are implying that a Marxist Company would steal Intellectual Property from some one??? How Shocking!

They are scum thieves and I hope they get sued and or who ever is making the decision to Steal goes to jail. I just need to remember "Lamptron" so I know never to buy anything from them.

 

[Notton]

Couldn't they have used something like HWiNFO + InfoPanel?
Or does that combo have too much extra work to setup compared to AIDA64?

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

HWiNFO is a subscription for commercial use, which this would probably fall under.

AIDA64 is effectively a subscription $20 per PC ($60 for 3) per year if you want updates.

Not really anything I can think of that'd work and for free, or at least a single purchase price in this software-as-a-service world we live in.

 

[Garden-Gnome]

So, will this article get updated to reference the "shady practices"?
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-com...resolution-that-functions-as-a-second-display

 

[pclaughton]

HWiNFO is a subscription for commercial use, which this would probably fall under.

AIDA64 is effectively a subscription $20 per PC ($60 for 3) per year if you want updates.

Not really anything I can think of that'd work and for free, or at least a single purchase price in this software-as-a-service world we live in.

I prefer Rainmeter personally, but there's obviously a lot of subjective personal opinion in that.

 

[TechLurker]

Chinese company who bought a Western company's name! (I don't know the full history of the original company so I don't know if there was anything left of said company when the purchase happened)

Old Lamptron were in the early DIY/hardcore PC building and modding business, selling a variety of tools to de-pin and re-pin cables, and supporting extreme cooling via custom fan controllers that they built and tested, with the goal of being able to (voltage) control even the most power-hungry fans at the time. They also used to sell some of the early liquid cooling stuff cases and 5.25 bay peripherals.

IIRC, their last major product before closing and being bought was the CF525 fan controller around 2014, which still relied on voltage control but could power 5 server-grade fans, with a maximum wattage of 60w per fan. There were plans to release an upgraded version that could support controlling high-power counter-rotating server fans (the 76mm thick monsters). Slowing sales in the air cooling community and the shift towards cases with little to no 5.25 bays (and in some cases, fewer fan mounts too, in the pursuit of aesthetics and silence) partly led to their demise.

When they "returned" a few years ago, the first thing they were now selling were rebranded Aliexpress junk, and everything released since there were all rebranded Aliexpress stuff.