I think the words you were looking for was "Gosh. Sorry for the inconvenience, and thanks for using Cakewalk since its been a paid program."
I do IT security, and my policy is to not needlessly update things that aren't broken. Updates are more and more of these types of corporate-convenience updates, and not real consumer assistance or program feature updates. And if the only way I would have known about the pending freeze in demo mode was if I had been updating things that I do not need to update, surely you see why I did not get that note.
But thanks for pointing out its a connected world. Its also a surveillance world, a spyware world, an unnecessary update world, and a privacy violating world, hence my own policies regarding not downloading unnecessary updates.
Case in point... last summer, a wedding photography company updated all their firmwares before a major event because of the manufacturer's "urgent security update" emails. It never occurred to them that the urgent update was not because of protecting consumers, it was urgent because of a manufacturer dispute with Adobe, and this update made certain RAW files incompatible with Adobe Lightroom. So again... I advise all my clients to eschew unnecessary updates.
Frankly, I advise everyone to not simply do what they are told. Also, everyone should be aware of the high cost of "free". I suppose now that this is an issue, I need to actually read your privacy policy to know if you are adding anything besides audio software into your program. Any other caveats or small prices to pay for this free software?
But again, now I know your software will stop working if I don't put my production laptop online.
Thanks again for the program. I think its fantastic, and I'm looking forward to creating more with this wonderful product.
Peace to all...