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"After a random period of time the player will prompt you to login to your Core Accout and download a 'seed' to keep the player active."
Nagware!
It is bad enough that you have to go through product activation schemes to prove you aren't a thief...but then you have to continually prove you aren't a thief to continue to use the software *that you already paid for*.
I'm sorry Bob, but I can't think the best of this, and it is happening all the way up and down the value chain. I dumped $1,800 of my employer's money into a copy of Adobe Creative Suite/Macromedia Studio. Even though the license allows me to run the software on two computers as long as they are both my machines, the activation scheme is broken to the point where only one copy can work at a time, and I'm sick of calling Adobe and explaining the issue to their phone support people.
Microsoft has demonstrated a business model that is being picked up by a lot of other players - you license software to one machine, and that license is NOT transferable. This makes doing hardware upgrades a very expensive proposition, and there are already a number of software products I have simply stopped using because I didn't want to pay for them again. The problem is particularly acute for me as someone who works in IT, because I am frequently churning hardware in my department and even in my home in order to stay 'current'.
This kind of thing makes some commercial software more trouble than it is worth.
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