This is crazy to hear. They also own izotope and several other brands. Imagine if the licensing servers go down.
Not only do we need right to repair legislation across North America (and the world), but we also need right to continue using - as in - they fold, the code (e.g. licensing server) becomes open source, or something similar, so people can continue to use these products.
It’s not all that crazy if you’ve paid attention to what NI has put out recently or rather what they haven’t. Their hardware has been incredibly dated forever and much of their software has been too.
They have not looked like a healthy company for years.