Then wait 10 years and see if he's still around. All people have issues with various forms of DRM. I won't touch cloud based subscription models, which seems to mean I'll eventually have to move away from Windows as an OS, nor do I have the current versions of Adobe CS or the latest MS Office stuff. My choice, my loss (maybe). More than half the software I have uses tickets as a form of DRM. I've had complete drive failures, updated my computer 3 times in the last 5 years, and never once had a problem. Back it up, store the key. Losing data to a lightning strike is not the programmers problem, it's ours for not backing up. Not like we haven't been warned a million times. Keep going VWD, I for one am still interested.