Unfortunately, the same activation problem appears with the newest update version 2023.09.
Renaming the cakewalk.exe did not help. Turning off all firewall also did not help.
If I try to sign in via Help menu, but no feedback happens. After some time, a message Message see attached file. Before there was a message like "Error 20 ...", which got replaced by the red message (s. attchmt)
Help is VERY appreciated. Thanks!