Sorry about that, maybe someone should have had the foresight after what did happen to LUK. Yes the entire point is moot, the program is dead. Personally I don't miss it, but others do, maybe the author should have thought of the consequences before going to all that trouble. Like I said, its sad. With hd and Bluray in the future it wouldn't have lasted long anyway. Taking the time to put together a program for free is a noble guesture, but not to have a plan B, when everyone knew what had happened before is poor planning. It is truely sad.

I agree with you here but isn't there a better method than to make a program and just release it? I mean like take it to the courts again and not have a program out?

Sure, for those that have money to do that. Fighting something in court is not free. Releasing a free application makes the statement you want to make.

I misread your post sorry i thought it was directed to me also

yeah economics is always fun with times like this. And yes it was just a post YOU made to let everyone know if they want it buy it before the prices goes up

The fact is that if you want quality, you have to pay for it. For the people that write these programs knowing full well the consequences that go along with such a program always have a plan. Slysoft has the right to charge whatever they choose, and people have the right to buy it or not too, its as easy as that. My bet is that they will, and the dollar won't stay weak forever, everything will balance out in the future. For people reading this, if you have not bought the program by now, you never will. Slysoft announced their intentions in plenty of time to buy the program. For the new users that get into this hobby, they will have to pay what the program costs and knowing Slysoft there will be plenty of promotions to make everyone who wants the program accessible at a fair price.

And I find some of your statements strange when admitting you never had any intention of buying the program at any price. The fact is that all of the programs you mentioned above still need a decrypter like AnyDVD to work on some new titles. That is a fact.

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.

Alan i was wondering when you would have had enough and it's a hard decision. To close or not to close this thread...........

Yeah - but AnyDVD keeps requiring updates to handle the latest garbage thrown at us by the studio dvd manufacturers - and the last version of RipIt4Me just keeps on chugging along unfettered. This reminds me of my 1st purchase of a Sony TV - the salesman suggested that I should not buy it because Sony did not stock parts in our part of the USA. I pointed out that it was because these Sony TV's do not fail! That was 16 years ago - and that particular TV is still working perfectly, never having had a single problem.

The program is dead? Don't be ridiculous. It is more consistently reliable than any ripper currently available - free or otherwise. But then you are probably one of the folks who keeps saying DVDShrink is dead also - in spite of the fact that it is still far more advanced than CloneDVD2.

Everyone is entitled to their opinions - and what the outcome of Slysoft's price increases remains to be seen.

Tune in next year for the next chapter in this little free enterprise drama bought to you by the Elby/Slysoft software group . . . .

@Blutech
I am a potential customer for Bill gates Mansion so he better not put anymore stuff into it or
well he just better not
Regards

sheesh
what logic

To be fair, Rich86, there is at least one copy protection scheme R4M will fail on every time. Yes, I know that's a very small percentage of discs out there, but, R4M is not flawless. It will, however, do the majority of titles without problems so I agree that there's absolutely no reason to not use it if that's what you've been using all along. On the rare occasion that you run into a disc that it can't handle, another solution will be necessary. With AnyDVD, I haven't had many problems. And when I do, I know that an update is going to be released to handle the problem. Paid support vs freeware app no longer supported, I suppose.

You're probably right, Blu. What worries me, though, is what Rolling and I discussed earlier on in the thread...piracy. A price hike will push some "would be" pirates who were considering an actual purchase over the edge into the "screw that, it's too expensive but I want it" category. I'm certainly *NOT* advocating that action at ALL. I am very much against that, but, I'm not naive enough to think it won't happen. The problem with that is once you've turned potential customers into freeloading pirates, all the price cuts in the world aren't usually enough to bring them back to being paying customers. Ask the music industry, as an example, as to how that's working out for them. I truly worry that a huge price increase like this will decimate the potential customer field, possibly damaging it permanently I REALLY truly hope that does not happen, but, my gut instinct tells me it's most definitely a possibility.

has anyone thought of this scenario.........that maybe their trying to get the on the wallers? to buy their products before the big hike in cost? or maybe their going to add more stuff (like in this old thread) we'll have to wait and see.
Oh thanks this thread is pretty entertaining to read though.

Being the forum whore that I am, I've noticed that this price increase hasn't been as much of a hot topic over at the slysoft forum as it is elsewhere. I see some familiar faces here, the same as there and it baffles me that the community over there isn't in an uproar....

http://forum.slysoft.com/showthread.php?t=10439

Could it be that it is because the majority of them, me included, already own all the products they want and are thus less concerned with increases?

I guess so, considering this is a "ME" world. Everyone must be smiling thinking, "I've got mine, if you don't have yours too bad."

Highly possible reason as I too own them all.

Sad to say this is what kind of world we live in. The OP simply meant if you don't own them or any get them now before the hike.

And I have heard a plan is in place to make it even harder to use cracked Slysoft products. In my opinion a thief is a thief and they would not buy it anyway even for a dime if they can steal it. This would not be a wise move by potential customers. At this moment the dollar is at 1.47USD to the Euro. That makes the program about 72USD. Well worth the price.