Daniel Batal talks about Filmora "lifetime license"

[WhiteMouse]

Although he talks about Filmora, but I think this happened to many other softwares "lifetime license".

 

[vtqhtr413]

Here is another example on this topic. When I tried to go to the original source of the article 'The Financial Times' it opened to a paywall

Sage Accused of 'Strong Arm' Tactics Over Move To Software Subscriptions - Slashdot

British businesses have complained about the tactics used by Sage, the UK's largest listed tech company, to push them into accepting more expensive subscription services or have access to their existing accounting software packages switched off. From a report: Small companies across the UK rely...

tech.slashdot.org

 

[Ink]

Lifetime licenses were always a scam.

There are zero guarantees with lifetime licenses after x period of time, or after x version number. Companies can offload them whenever they want.

What’s more profitable in the first year?

• 1000 sales of "lifetime licenses" at $100
• 1000 sales of 1 year licenses at $40

 

[Freki123]

Lifetime licenses were always a scam.

I see them as a gamble. If you are early to buy them and the company sticks to their word you can have a nice software for a long time cheap.
So far I'm mostly happy with the ones I bought over the years. E.g adguard. Sandboxie I had for quite some time so I still consider it a bargain.

 

[ForgottenSeer 97327]

Well credits to MBAM, my life time lisence still works

 

[jv16]

Lifetime licenses were always a scam.

There are zero guarantees with lifetime licenses after x period of time, or after x version number. Companies can offload them whenever they want.

I don't think that's fair. My company has had a lifetime license for many years and we have always honored that. I hope any company that offers a lifetime license but doesn't honor that gets sued, either by individual customers or by a class action lawsuit.

And people should absolutely sue Wondershare for not honoring their lifetime license. It should be fairly straightforward case. A company cannot just decide one day that they no longer follow a promise like that. As far as I know, there was nothing in their original contract (end user license agreement) that would allow them to do this. And even if there was, there are things like unfair contract clauses, which can be taken to court.