It is officially the case. The engine update your licensed access each hour, so yes, when your license is ended, your access to the downloads is ended too... you can be aware of that easily, each month we can read here and there some users who ask why they stopped being able to download...

btw, the vision is different from my personal 2¢...

it is more secure to have license verification on a coder's side of things. i would hate to code for non-clients... leechers, pirates... by seeing that the "Paid Services Requests" are filled only by licensed clients is good, because we, as coders, are secured to work for clients, and not working for pirates. ok, that does not protected us from scammers, but hey, we have 1 scammer for 200 clean coders...

btw, why isn't there a debate about this site's status on vb.com, where the guys come from? they are the only one to be able to make a statement on the status of vb.org... beside Marco here, i think nobody can really make a commercial statement on the legit "official" appreciation that everybody know about.

oh, and btw, Shelley, cute avatar!