What is the deal with the KEY?

[dyoung]

Good Morning, I am new here and want some information about the purchased version. I have noticed users recommending your product with 5-star ratings, but it has more functions, which can be confusing. Additionally, when I downloaded the beta version, a pop-up message read This version is outdated. It works kind of, but I'm not sure if it is. help please.

Kona

Please do not hijack an other person's thread, create your own thread.
Further, when you create that thread, please explain better.

Help? Help what?

"It works kind of, but I'm not sure if it is"
This is far too vague for any person to help you. Explain what it is or is not doing. What are you trying to do with it which it is possibly not doing?

"it has more functions, which can be confusing"
MakeMKV in its default configuration is very simple, but it has an advanced feature set which can be enabled.
What specifically is confusing you?

As I said, create your own new thread for this, and answer at least those questions.

[seamus]

I suggest you stop using MakeMKV and find other software.

You are not merely complaining of the FREE software you are using, you are doing it based:
1- Mostly on WHERE the author is from?
2- Supplemented by you not being acquainted with him?
3- Supplemented with the free key not always being functional?

1- Prejudice, pure and simple. There are many hackers who reside in Western society and are of Western origins, and many malwares released both by individuals or groups and by "seemingly legitimate" companies from Western countries. Meanwhile, there are also incredibly good softwares I found from both Russia & China.
2- Then I guess you should not use Windows. Or Linux. Or Android. Or any software written for any of those OSes. Unless you are saying you know every dev writing code for the OS you use? And all other software you use? Yeah, thought not.
3- The website IS reliable. The FREE beta key is not 100% maintained, being it is not always immediately updated after expiration. Dislike that? Buy the software or use different software. The recent incident of MakeMKV not being purchasable and the beta key not being updated for 2 weeks was a bad coincidence of Mike being unavailable when Paypro's supply of keys was depleted and Mike's main support person being in the hospital. MakeMKV is not being programmed & maintained by a large corporation. Expecting response & support as if it was is pure entitlement.

You should be cautious of any software new to you, regardless of its origins. You would feel more comfortable if it was open source? Agreed, as I would be with any software regardless of the country/entity of origin, but malware can also be hidden in open source software while open-sourcing the software would remove almost all of Mike's income from his work writing & maintaining MakeMKV. MakeMKV was originally released almost 2 decades ago, and Mike offered the free beta this entire time, despite how many people come onto the forum solely to complain "OMG Y IS IT NOT FUKSHUNING WEN I WANT IT" almost every 2 months. For you to say ANYTHING you did in your prior posts is beyond rude & insulting to Mike, and all people not from Western countries.

All I can conclude from your post is that you have have some mental handicaps - and definitely form your opinions and arguments without benefit of any resort to logic. IOW, you are a "partisan hack". You confuse "prejudice" with "common sense". But perhaps your pandering to comrade mike will pay off for you... or maybe you are mike?

And FWIW, I've insulted no one. As we've seen from other posts, "mike" is a non-entity - it's a western-sounding alias designed to overcome the bias against Russia and (most) Russians. If someone named mike does not exist, I wonder why you claim he has been insulted?

Finally, you overstate/misstate what I've said/posted here. How about this for a "deal": You take care of YOUR shortcomings, and let me worry about mine?
~S