then you must be running norton

actually my windows xp installation over the last two years has been more stable than my osx installation of the last 4 months.

regardless, any sort of requirements such as having to be online to authorize (i realize that youu can authorize your ilok from another computer and then use your ilok to authorize plugins on your daw) is absurd, i think the subscription idea could work some, but i'm not too sure about op's approach(tl;dr) in the official software only thread i mentioned having a subscription that got you discounts on different pieces of software for being part of the club.