Greg Ross, when the product is not even legal because it pirates GPLv3 software in its distribution and fails to give the GPLv3 software credit, fails to include a copy of the GPLv3 license text and fails to make their overall product GPLv3 license compatible means they have no legally enforcable license and should be opperating quite differently if they wanted to be operating legally. A 1 year or subscription based license on a product for a near obsolete media format is laughable. As well as the fact they have not even managed to get the system requirements data, they have published via this site, correct! The System Requirements state "Windows XP, Vista/ 7/ 8/ 8.1/ 10;" But the program and the pirated FFMPEG.EXE and FFMPEG support DLLs require WIndows 7 and above in order to execute. GAOTD is not a software charity site where the visitors are here begging for free software... There exists many sites on the internet distributing free software and there are whole classes of always FREE software often much better and more legal than these dodgy companies with grey market commercial products trying to convince us to promote their warez in exchange for a FULL licensed product to evaluate to see if it's any good. Maybe you should think it out again... ALL these giveaways offer trial versions to try out and decide if you want to buy.... for that purpose they do not need to use GAOTD marketing platform and you do not need to use GAOTD marketing platform. If you like their offering and their operating ethos you do them the best service to recommend it to your customers, and members of your social circle if they have any need for the type of the software on offer rather than just buy a license for yourself. Your way they may at best get a small percentage of giveaway particpants buying a license for themselves but the proper benefit to using the GAOTD platform is for the visitors to promote the decent giveaway products to the people they may have influence with.

TK, What I was trying to point out and you seem to have missed that point is that any software they put on here is free. if it is a 6 month or one year license is regardless. I am pointing out that complaining that it is not a lifetime offer is just plain stupid. For people to moan about something that is free to try is a waste of time. As far as the software giveaways, the companies on here for the most part have been around for a far length of time.

To [ Greg ], you wrote "... complaining that it is not a lifetime offer is just plain stupid ..."

No.

That's feedback.

That's what we do.

If software has any features and benefits, or is missing features and benefits, we give feedback.

Universally here on GOTD, the biggest problems are:

-- REGISTRATION hoops and invasions ( "membership" in order to run a vendor's software )

-- software EXPIRATION, even IObit and others who "simply" revert to their almost-full-function free versions and keep on working forever aggravates folks,

-- inability to REINSTALL past the one-day's offering - if anything goes wrong ( what could possible happen with today's computers?!? ) then go try the competition, that's what vendors are telling us,

-- ERRORS, failure to launch, BSOD, memory and dll errors, lock up, trashing our computers altogether,

-- anti malware reports of INFECTED software,

-- software installs SIDECARS and NAGS,

-- software windows not resizable to use our universally gargantuan displays,

-- inability to search, sort, select, import, export, report, remember prior work and settings,

-- lack of universal controls, like a standard menu bar,

-- repeats of giveaways with no improvements over prior giveaways ( KCSoftwares, for example ).

-- software not as sophisticated as always-free alternatives,

Software that expires and stops working of it's own time-limited volition is arbitrary, aggravating, and destroys goodwill for a vendor,

... and us giving feedback on that is what we do here as part of our faithful GOTD participation.

It's not complaining.

It's valuable feedback.

Those vendors and programmers behind the offers here should pay attention, participate ( as they promise to, but seldom do ), and say:

-- THANK YOU.

Occasionally a vendor writes in and tries to rationalize that life is too hard if they give away their software ... and they complain like that on a giveaway site, no less!

It's called marketing, and accepting feedback is part of the relationship.

We have an immense, world wide, incredible group of positive, talented, experienced, and savvy participants here at GOTD ( including those I regularly get into long drawn out back-and-forths with ), and if vendors would learn to mine our resources, they would leapfrog their competition and become more and more successful by incorporating what they can learn here.

Or not, Leawo.
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Robert S Dolph, Errr in what ways are CDs Video DVDs?

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In response to [ Fred the Taff ],

Yes, software should work, period.

Guess what I'm going to do when Leawo fails ... I'm switching to WinX.

Because WinX doesn't expire.

So if Leawo thought they were getting inroads on their competition, they are not.

No brainer: if I have your software on my screen, then I'm not using the competition, be happy.

Why do you think Microsoft gives away Word?

Do they make money on giving away Word?

Yes, for those who upgrade.

But regardless, WordPerfect cannot make money if users have working Microsoft Word on their screen.

Get it?

NO EXPIRING SOFTWARE.

Period.

Ignore this at your own peril.
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Fred the Taff, It's free for a year. If you don't want it for a year, go buy something else

pm, not complaining about the time limit.
Only the fact that that information is kept secret until people install it.
Reread my post before telling me off!

To [ pm ],

Exactly.

That's my message to Leawo.

Now, or at the end of a year, we are going to go use something else.

WinX DVD software does not expire, for example.

Buy?

We're here to give feedback, to help the software programmers and vendors polish and improve.

That's why there's no charge either way.

Vendors don't charge ( or get paid ) for their software offering.

We don't charge ( or get paid ) for our feedback.

Thanks for sharing.
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Ray, I too was redirected to the same page, in my opinion it is simply an error in the configuration of the giveaway part.
I have been able to install and to register the software (even if in the mail that I received there was no registration data).

Regards

Rodolfo Giovanninetti

Picudo, on my Windows 10 it says that the subscription is 367.
I believe it means 367 days and so only one year.

Regards

Rodolfo Giovanninetti

Picudo, Just installed it and it looks like it's a 1 year subscription.