I do not even see it as being a trouble maker. This is a ridiculous idea. Companies need to listen to the customers or they go out of business. MultiCharts rose to the top fast because they listen. This info is money in the bank for the company. If they think of these opinions as trouble maker stuff they are in big trouble. So far PgMusic is allowing re-installs. So they are listening. Their method seems a bit awkward but at least I can keep running my BIAB until they get back to me about this request number. This is important. I only tried to reactivate because of a bug in BIAB in the first place. I was not reinstalling. Unfortunately I was in a rush to get that video out and I don't remember the original bug.
I had two members lightly suggest maybe using another backing track program. I don't think the others are as good. I will stick with BIAB.
One clarification on my thoughts. If a software matures so there are no new direct features that the user uses one needs to realize that having to upgrade the software to adapt to new operating systems sometimes happens. if this happens this is in fact a new feature. Lets call it a secondary new feature. So this would be an upgrade and those who sign on to beta, 1 back, 2 back need to pay for these upgrades since it takes programming to make this possible. The person with the life time license that does not include upgrade would be out of luck in this case and stuck with the old operating system.
Another point. MultiCharts now costs $1497.00 for a lifetime license. I don't know if they will ever stop the free
upgrades with this license. I paid $6??.00 in 2007 for it. I lucked out I guess :-)
https://www.multicharts.com/purchase/?Software companies can always put in their agreements an operating system upgrade if they have stopped putting in new direct features and charge for this operating system upgrade. Whether they can realistically hire short term contract programmers to do this I don't know.
It occurred to me that BIAB will never really run out of features because they keep putting in new real tracks and this is a bottomless pit. That is primarily why I went from 2012 to 2016 in 4 years (to get the full set of real tracks). It had a few new useful features but that was not the reason for purchase. Two group members who have BIAB complained about my midi tracks :-)