Do You Need To Be Connected To The Internet At All Times To Use The Rental Version Of Chief?

[Fun2Learn]

I wanted to call Chief Architect to see about ordering the rent to own version of Chief and their sales office is closed. They probably won't be open until after Labor Day, so I thought maybe you all could answer my question regarding the rental version: Do you have to be connected to the internet at all times to use the rental version? I mean, if y internet goes out or is running very s-l-o-w-l-y (as often happens around here) will  I not be able to work on Chief?

 

Thanks!

[Joe_Carrick]

Rent to own?  I wasn't aware that there was such a version.

[Kbird1]

It's a relatively new option I think (July 1st?) , I saw Dan Park mention it in a thread about a month ago which was the 1st time I had heard of it.

 

It is Rent to Own $199 month for 15 months , ($2985 total) if you pay 15 months in a row ,but  miss a month and your 15 months start again..... there is also a monthly Rental Fee of $19.33 which I thought was additional but looking at the Agreement I believe it is included in the Rent to Own agreement.

 

SSA is included and continues at $45 month after you own the Software , not sure if the monthly SSA is offered normally of not? though you can outright buy SSA as normal too at $445 yr.

 

More info here

http://www.chiefarchitect.com/software-rental/

 

Rental agreement here

https://www.google.com/url?q=http://cloud.chiefarchitect.com/1/pdf/sales/chief-software-rental-agreement.pdf&sa=U&ei=01UCVNelNMG1iwLusoHoDA&ved=0CAYQFjAB&client=internal-uds-cse&usg=AFQjCNHA9_HfEQR_V8mcFNK4r0P70ULR4g

 

Normally Chief needs the Internet to activate/deactivate (eg switching computers) , download libraries and it needs to call home every 10-14 days to re-register ( same with HD Pro) I believe but I am unsure whether the Rent to own version is different or not in that regard.  

[Doug_Park]

The rental option uses the same software security as Chief. Which means it has more or less the same limitations. The software runs entirely on your machine with a periodic check with our server for DRM. The checks are done when you launch and if you don't have an internet connection you will be in a grace period that will eventually end and you will no longer be able to launch the program. The right to continue using the program is managed by our database so if you don't pay, it will eventually catch up to you.

[Kbird1]

these security pages might help but your grace period is 2 weeks it says here:

 

http://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/security.html

 

http://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00937/

 

So if intermittent internet or slow it should be fine.... however you may want to check will Sales on Monday as I'm not sure what Doug means by  "more or less" above.

 

M.

[lbuttery]

I suspect Monday is a holiday for CA

 

Lew

[DavidJPotter]

In case you do not already know what "DRM" means here is a definition: (I looked it up)

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management

 

DJP

[johnny]

This was a very good idea by Chief, but I think they should go further. 

 

For my Vectorworks purhase I use their $50 per month program that gets me the app and full support features - even though I owed full copies I could have upgraded, the $50 a month represents a better overall deal if I planned to upgrade each year (as I did).  I also do that with my Adobe and MS software and so far I like it much better.