SlySoft
SlySoft Inc. is a software company based in Saint John 's, the capital of Antigua and Barbuda. Since some of the programs of SlySoft circumvent copy protection measures, the distribution in some states is illegal.
History
SlySoft went in July 2003 with the first version of AnyDVD online. The Company has acquired rights to some programs of the Swiss company Elaborate Bytes and adopted the emulation software Game Jackal from the Australia-based computer company Jacal Consulting in early 2007. Since June 2007, this software is developed and distributed exclusively by SlySoft.
On 1 January 2008, the company introduced its prices from U.S. dollars to Euros at the ratio 1:1. This came at the then dollar a price increase of about 40 percent the same. SlySoft justified this change with the fact that the company pay their employees in euros and therefore given the weak dollar exchange rate verringeren profits.
Announced on 1 January 2009 and fully implemented 19 January 2009 SlySoft changed the licensing model for all available products. In addition to the much more expensive licenses for lifetime free updates there since the changeover also update subscriptions with either one, two, three or four years duration. Such licensed products may also be used for life, are after the expiry of the subscription period, however, no longer update entitled.
In November 2010, claiming SlySoft, from 1 January 2011, no licenses with lifetime update subscription offer more. In a study published in the forum and sent to all registered users by e -mail announcement it was said that you cancel this move early in order to give all interested parties an opportunity to acquire a lifelong update subscriptions. At the beginning of 2011, the supposedly last possibility was first, then extended to 3 to 4 January, then all the announcements have been deleted without comment about the license change and all previous licenses continue to be offered unchanged.
Terms of Use
Owner of web sites that had linked SlySofts website were warned by the Registry Waldorf. On 14 October 2010, the Bundesgerichtshof decided after a revision process of the Heise publishing house against representatives of the music industry that the link setting is generally permitted as pure information gathering serving footnote equivalent. With this ruling to the contrary decisions of lower instances were discarded and dismissed the music industry in all aspects.
→ See also: Section " dispute " in the article " AnyDVD "
Products
- AnyDVD
- CloneCD
- CloneDVD (only sales, developers Elaborate Bytes )
- CloneDVD mobile ( conversion program )
- Game Jackal
- ReClock ( Program for the Prevention of PAL acceleration Freeware)
- Virtual Clone Drive (virtual CD-/DVD-drives, freeware )