While it sounds great and you might get that wonderful fuzzy feeling from buying a lifetime license for your video archiving needs consider this. I've been using Any DVD since Elby first developed it and sold it via download from Germany. I just like you had bought a lifetime license from them. Then they were forced to cease and desist to stop making this product and they shut them down.
First off Facts Elby didn't create Anydvd that was from Slysoft so your facts are already wrong to start with. Got problem go complain to Slysoft.
When they returned back online they no longer offered Any DVD for sale. Enter Sly Soft and they take over the marketing and development of Any DVD later on to morph to work with Blue Ray discs and BD Live. When I inquired if they would honor my "Lifetime" license from Elby they said NO.
Fact also missed RedFox has nothing to do with Slysoft and another person whom fail to Read the Facts of what happened again and cherry picking their own facts and making up facts. Elby again didn't create Anydvd that was from Slysoft and then they closed RedFox got the rights to use Anydvd HD license.
So I bought another "Lifetime License" from Sly Soft and now Poof Sly Soft disappears due to the efforts of the new renewed enforcement and pressure from AACS LA. So now I have two defunct "Lifetime Licenses".
If you really Read the Facts your Slysoft license works up to 7.6.9.5 and that was all. How about Reading the posted Facts instead of making stories here.
Enter Red Fox and lo and behold they are offering you guessed it "Lifetime Licenses". But now you have to buy it with Bitcoin or a Visa card or no License. Are you F***ing kidding me???!!! My advice is don't buy it.
No one is forcing you to buy RedFox and since you refuse to listen the Facts of the News about Slysoft demise that is your choice but most have lived reality and moved on.
I've already been burned twice and I'm not going to jump through hoops to get burned a third time. Somewhere down the road someone will break the new enhanced AACS encryption in the mean time those of you that buy a "Lifetime License" good luck I hope it lasts.
No one burned you, that is your "alice in wonderland" fantasy. Again not Reading Facts and still cling onto "alice in wonderland" story.
The powerful movie moguls and technocrats are working hard to shut down developers that break the encryption so it's highly unlikely that RedFox and Any DVD will survive and that "Lifetime License" you paid a hundred bucks for will be worthless and useless as software goes.
And you think RedFox software is the only one of the target. Hello, get out and see what's out there ok. You could get run over the next day but you still get out of your house right? Getting out of the ArmChair Quarterback will help you have better outlook on life itself.
I appreciate all of the arguments presented in response to my thread they all are very valid points.
There is no valid points - all are the same whining posts that talk to the Wall. Slysoft is dead and your License Ended with Slysoft because of AACS-LA, go and complain to them.
But what bother's me the most is that there doesn't seem to be any kind of reciprocity when it comes to companies that "pick up" the pieces of a an important product that we all use. At the very least offer a discount for user loyalty for the many years that I and many others bought renewable licenses and then got a life time license only to have to buy the product again.
Really someone whom talks about having valid points but seems to seemingly ignore the Facts of the Events and what has happened seems to be making incoherent points.
I bought this product many, many, times over and over again through the years. Neither Elby nor Sly Soft ever did that kind of deal that whomever the successor was that would inherit the product through outright acquisition of rights or outright sale would honor or at the very least offer a special discount or a renewable lifetime license at a discount for being a loyal recurring buyer.
Elby and Slysoft aren't the same company and also Fact Elby software by themselves can't decrypt the movies that was Anydvd that was from Slysoft - those software from Elby had nothing to worry from the AACS-LA to close.
This irks me quite a bit it's like the perpetual upgrade of Cyberlink's Power DVD or Nero or any other company that uses that type of business model.
Those are player software what does those have anything to do with how Anydvd decrypts movies? Absolutely nothing. This is what irks me trying to cling to straws to something that has no links.
I need Any DVD like all of you do but the way things are going it appears that the days of optical media are over.
Anydvd has nothing to do with optical media history or usage-how one comes to this delusional "alice in wonderland' is just that pure fantasy.
I for one am not willing to invest any longer in a product that has become sadly an anachronism, and worse whose future is sadly not very promising. It was a good run and it was a very useful tool but how long will it be before Any DVD even in it's present form gets shut down too. Then what? The licenses will mean nothing because the developers and interim company that is currently holding on by their fingernails will lose their tentative grip due to the unrelenting forces that are currently enforcing the interest of the big movie studios and media conglomerates.
That's is fine by the rest of us-no one is forcing you buy but since you don't want to Read Facts and make up facts then that is your choice to do but sadly your in the minority camp.
I've seen this all before in many other guises. It happened with Napster and the RIAA law suits and all the other file sharing companies that copied that model.
What does Napster have anything to do with Anydvd. This couldn't be further from the Truth. You've seen nothing just "alice in wonderland" is what you been seeing for all anyone cares-of which they could care less about.
This current situation can be likened to that era the only difference is that it's the big movie studios and media juggernauts that are going to eventually win out over us and our drowned out voices of "fair use" will be a fading cry in the wind from an era that has passed.
This is amusing you argue about how the Studios are interfering and yet make hypocritical arguments that have no bases to start with.