However, to those lifetime license owners whose licenses were sent as free gifts or obtained during our previous giveaway campaigns, we can no longer offer free upgrade because we’ve handed out a huge number of free licenses in the past few years, millions of perhaps, which equals almost a third of our paid users. But on the second thought, we decided to pack those new features into the Passkey 9, so as to honor the existing customers, especially those lifetime license owners, and to keep their budgets down, at the cost of our minimized marginal profit. The reason for this is simply due to the fact that those new features cost us huge R&D effort, plenty of time, considerable amount of investment on buying new corporation level servers and the enhanced security measures to keep the data on those servers absolutely safe from any potential harm. The original plan for the new features added in the Passkey 9 was intended for a brand new product, in which case, both paid customers and non-paid users will have to buy if they are interested. You just cannot activate PK9 unless you pay. I imagine we'll just have to wait & see if DVDFab decides to make those v.8 licenses work in 9.īy going through the posts on the forum you can redownload PK8 back and still be activated. So it could be an oversight - or not - but I would guess that there's going to be an awful lot of pressure from everyone who got a free lifetime license for DVDFab to honor the lifetime part. Giving DVDFab the benefit of the doubt, they did not have accounts available at their site before this, AFAIK. As of this afternoon those licenses are not recorded in their database the way that purchases are, so if you install 9, it will by default replace v.8, but if you attempt to activate 9 it will show a trial ending next month.
Now the main reason for this post is that thousands, maybe 10s or hundreds of thousands of lifetime keys for Passkey 8 were given away in August, 2015.
Version 8 will presumably no longer be updated, or at best not often before updates stop entirely The main new feature of version 9 however seems to be how it's activated - instead of the keys that were sent out for v.8, 9 requires a sign-in to an account at DVDFab's site. Passkey does contact the mothership for information on just how to decrypt individual discs, but even so the software is updated fairly frequently to handle new protections, e.g. What it does is decrypt discs with DRM, so you can copy the disc, or play a retail video DVD or Blu-Ray disc using any media player that can handle the format, & so on. Passkey is an app that sits between your DVD &/or Blu-ray drives & everything else in Windows.
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