Feature Update arm in a license disaster

I use the software "photos on DVD" for many years and have purchased an update every year. The core of the software was mostly unchanged, and has also worked. Some of the newly added features were helpful, many were gimmicks that should rather address the play instinct. So the name is new even in this new version, first of all once. The Multimedia 8 tracks are actually needed by a few users. But there is nothing against a program with rock-solid core properties that work clean. Whether one then always wants to undergo an update, each user may decide for themselves.

However, this new version is a jump over the cliff, because a new license policy is with proud vehemence against the user. One problem is not an email address, but to a hardware in the new compulsory restriction. In addition, a monthly online verification of the license, as it exists in software leasing models. If one day Magix their servers off because of a change in the portfolio or business orientation or due to bankruptcy, then the supposedly purchased software is turned off abruptly and all projects of recent years are only placeholders on the hard disk. This is indeed the crux of the rental models and for the majority of users is an unacceptable risk.

What is a typical user? Actually, I am not far away. I have a desktop widescreen home. In addition, I use a laptop, for example, when I'm out and back up the data of my photo card and perhaps Manage photos and edit want, for example, if I have a little time for the holidays. This no longer works with Magix to the 2014er versions so. If the program is recorded on the desktop, which is not in addition to the laptop, as before. Umregistrieren goes once a month, but overall, very few times, as this is intended for hardware changes. Multiple use through leasing models is for me absolutely because of the risk of an abrupt stop using unacceptable, see above.

What you would do then, to even the programs of Magix - as described - to use can? I would have to buy two licenses. The finge then with 2 * 70 = 140 Euro. Will I organize the photos yet, there is the Photo Manager 2015 thereto, ie 2 * 50 = 100 Euro. Video editing also how far? Again 2 * 100 = 200 Euro. Power all together 440 Euros. Then I am still in software, when I have to fear from month to month whether they will be further validated. And woe, I on vacation in Tibet is not the right time an internet connection, the software also runs no more - until I'm back home. Toll.

Let's look once more professional side: 283 euros (all figures here list prices) cost Adobe Lightroom 5, Photoshop Elements 13 and Premiere Elements 13 together, run on desktop and laptop and without Validation Grid. If you prefer a simpler operation, can sometimes look at Aqua Soft, 80 euros for the Ultimate version runs on desktop and laptop, no forced validation.

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