The fact is that this is the Slysoft Forum and as you have so politely taken this thread off topic ( as have I ) The fact remains, that you can be the champion of the people and still lose. If you want a quality product you have to pay for it, these programs all need updates to keep up with the protections. Yes people can still use them and then come here everyday and complain that they wont work with this or that title. Then the programs that have financial support come to the rescue. That is a fact. The programmers have to be paid, there is overhead in any business that is successful and that has to be paid for. What you choose to do is of no consequence here, what the authors chose to do is. I could go on but after all these post there is no point because you will never understand. I politely will now leave you all to champion all the freeware that is no longer updated, I for one own all the Slysoft products and love them, they do what they say and they work hard to satisfy their customers. Only the future will tell if their decision to raise their prices will be successful, and if its not I am sure they have a plan for that also. There is more to just slapping a few programs together to make freeware if you want to succeed in the long run. I politely leave you now and wish you all a Happy Holiday.