Yup. Got an alert that my free was running out and I decided to drop the US$20 for the registration. Just did that half an hour ago. I pop the new CD in, that arrived yesterday, and I get the "check your connection" warning. I bought the Ripper because it had access to the database, unlike the ripper that came with my Win7. Do you think they may update the software to use something like MusicBrainz?