Quote Originally Posted by Alpha View Post
This is a new thing for me. Are you sure sam??
Yes Arn. When I asked Tonec during giveaway at TIS, they told me that. Here are few quotes from recent giveaways :

1. You can get an original license key from IDM which has one year validity -

2. the license expires in one year and is eligible for Free upgrade to all new versions of IDM during one year -

3. We have ten lifetime licenses for Internet Download Manager to give away. -

Now, the 1st quote may also mean 1 year validity for free updates, anyway leave it, as it is not clear (infact many bloggers won't talk more about the details of license key). Now, in the 2nd quote you see, that Mayur is telling that the license itself is going to expire. Now, let us come to Ghacks quote. It's not directly agreeing to my statement, but it'll in contrapositive way. Here, Ghacks talks about lifetime licenses, infact you won't find anything like LIFETIME license at the official IDM page. So, Martin should be talking about the usual license keys that are valid for lifetime but are entitled for 1 year free upgrades/updates... (Also, see this )