[noiseboyuk]

Originally Posted by FilterDecay

I will never go onto a subscription plan. I use protools to pay my mortgage and feed myself. I will never put that at the whims of wallstreet. If avid tanks subscriptions will lapse with no recourse. No way.

Personally I think its unlikely Avid would vanish overnight in a way that abandoned all customers. Someone would buy it and keep some kind of service going. But your point is fair in the sense that this could take some time. Their servers have gone down before, as have iLok's. If you rely on PT for your job, you can't be without it for an hour, let alone a month. These are solid reasons for always having a permanent license.