Yes I would Mind most people like you are just here to try and stir a hornets nest up have fun it will not work on me...Children now a days..PFFFFFT...
Quite honestly I did not mean to stir a hornets nest. I wanted and want to understand the parameters of the license. Curious though that I stroke a nerve rather than being ignored.
I read large portion of some of the discussions. It all makes sense in some ways. What strikes me most, however, is that there are some reasonable inconsistencies going forward. The largest is that either it is dirt cheap to keep the software updated and current by updating the database with new keys, or the new lifetime license customer acquisition rate is amazingly high (someone mentioned in a thread 5% which is not amazingly high) and cheap, or the lifetime licenses will expire because the business model cannot be supported over long time. I feel the latter is the case. As I see it, even with the purest and most legitimate and innocent intentions, the business model will turn out to be a one-layer Ponzi-like scheme.
As to signing over the intellectual property to the developers, oops -- bad news! There is a legal document somewhere that points to the principals. Now the various agencies have something to hook into.
Not only that, even if the at-an-arm's-length approach can be maintained, there are the servers. They need not be huge, but they need to serve large numbers of connections and downloads. These are the easy targets -- not necessarily legal challenges, but we know our esteemed government does use cyber warfare.
Finally, "follow the money." That is usually the surest way to find the principals. Even if the project has a byzantine financial structure, including using Bitcoins at some steps, someone "picks up the email at the PO Box" somewhere. Someone gets a phone call when servers go down. Someone pays for the bandwidth. The human may be deep underground, may be a lawyer with all the privileges of that profession, but
MPAA / AACS-LA are powerful enemies. Seeing that the
MPAA / AACS-LA really very much do not like AnyDVD, it is only a matter of time before they come a-knocking. They only need to go after the most visible principal, and they did show both ingenuity and influence with Slysoft.
For these reasons, business model and MPAA / AACS-LA efforts, I now believe that "RedFox.bz project" will eventually -- sooner than later -- succumb and lifetime licenses will be cut short sooner than later (maybe they should be called "open ended" licenses, not lifetime; calling them lifetime still stings and smarts).
Oh, yes -- three months' salaries for a fully functional business ... err, project, that can probably net each participant a cool $250K to $1M a year in the first year while they enjoy the work? Boy, I wish I had an opportunity such as that!
Having said that, I really hate the current US copyright laws that do not have exceptions for personal use. Many countries basically seem to have "own it, do not sell it, do not distribute, you are OK" approach. So if I had the $100+ I would buy the "lifetime" / open-ended license just to protest this nonsense -- besides, I like what the project is doing to avoid the bull's eye on their back. Alas, the purchase will have to wait until I learn to use Bitcoin and see the 20% discount,
and convince my SO that I
really need it.
Be good!
P.S. Thank you for implying I am a child! It has been a long time since anyone thought I had the brutal and clear insight that most children lose when they grow up.
Where do I post these two questions"
1. How do I change my forum moniker?
2. Where do I look and what do I do to move my Slysoft key to a new machine?