[The_bluester (Paul)]

Just a heads up through it has not happened to me yet.

I have seen some other forums indicating that Teamviewer has quite suddenly become very aggressive about what constitutes "Personal" use in the context of free use and are banning licenses when their servers detect more than one connection.

An example was on the SGP forum where someone has been using it for an extended period (As have I) and had one PC in an obs situation logged on to a PC doing image capture, then logged in to it from a third PC in their house (I think) and promptly received an error message essentially saying he was using it as a professional user and his license would be banned if he did not disconnect immediately. On contacting TV he was told he had been banned and the insistence was that he was a commercial user and essentially he could pay up front the nearly $700 annual fee or he could go die in a ditch.

The only difference I can see to me is I don't have a username and have never wanted to use it remotely, I have all my copies set up with "Exclusively accept incoming LAN connections" so I can log in to my imaging rig remotely from within my own network only without being a registered user, but apparently that functionality is going to get the chop on the free version too.

The situation is different as Teamviewer already have paying users, but you would have to ask if they paid attention to what happened to Photobucket when they tried something similar.

What else are people using before it potentially cuts me off in the middle of an imaging session? The cynic in me wonders given how implacably they seem to be doing this if they have a time expiry in recent versions that will force an upgrade to a new version for "Free" license users such as myself to disable the LAN only functionality I have always used.

If the price were reasonable I would consider moving up to a paid user account (Except that their hacking history is not exactly stellar) but at almost $700USD annually in a lump sum for the lowest license it makes as much sense as Photobucket's ransom demand did.