Get rid of, or mofify, online license checking

[tkemmann]

I too would like to see the software login at startup be removed. I purchased a lifetime license for version 8 approximately 2 years ago. Living in a rural area where the Internet connection comes and goes is a significant problem for me using version 9. And, unless I am mistaken, DVDFab did not have nor detail at the time that I purchased my license that a mandatory Internet connection was required. For better or worse, DVDFab has severely limited my lifetime license.

[broderp]

A workaround would be to use v8 when you don't have a connection. Except for blu-ray copying this all but eliminates the need for internet.

[signals]

As has been pointed out many times in the past year, this requirement is not likely to be removed, and I have no idea if it will be modified. An internet connection is a clearly stated system requirement and is listed on the website where you purchased the product. There are no privacy issues with online verification, it does not send ANY personally identifiable information to the server, it just checks to see if the license is valid and gets decryption information (from a different server) if you are using a Blu-ray as Source. If you would rather pay 3-5X the cost of a DVDFab renewal for some other product because of online licensing, I have to wonder if your problems with it are due to some other unknown motive. All Blu-ray decryptors use some sort of online database, so that is a non-issue as well.

[James Jr]

I too do not like this feature.

When my subscription runs out and its not changed i will go with a competitor.I Will not buy another subscription with dvdfab.

[MrVideo]

There was another thread regarding this, but it has been closed for a while now.

I too do not like the online license verification, not because of any concern about privacy, as any program could send user data to a server without the user even knowing about it. The concern is about lack of n internet connection.

While the later versions have improved connection timeouts to the server(s), it will never overcome an issue where there isn't an internet connection available. That renders DVDFab9 totally useless. We users have paid to be able to use the program 24x7, yet there are times where not is not always possible.

Then there is the possibility that while my internet connection may be working, the connection to the DVDFab9 server(s) might not be. Never say never that the feed to the server(s) can't go away because of some unforseen problem or that the server farm actually goes down. Again, never say never. Those who have have learned their lesson the hard way.

I can understand the need for the protection against theft of their program, but to do so at the expense of the paying customer isn't right either.

Here is a potential tradeoff: Have a 30 day timer in the product, whereby every time that a connection is established, the timer gets reset and if a connection can't be made, see if the 30 days has timed out.

As pointed out in the other thread, this "feature" is not popular and is causing some loyal users to defect. Obviously DVDFab already has the money from those users, since this is a lifetime update product, but word gets around real fast these days, which could result in potential future customers going elsewhere.

Please take the complaints about this "feature" seriously.

FYI: this also applies to the need to contact the server(s) regarding data for decrypting, etc.