If your subscription expired and was not renewed, you can't get a new key and your database is toast. If you do not use the program for 30 days or do not have internet access for 30 days, you will have to jump through some hoops to get access again. From that point, each time you open the program it fetches a decryption key from the mother ship, together with an expiration date sometime in the future (30 days maybe). Sometime along the way, the currently-weak database encryption is substantially strengthened. After that 'update' you find that your standalone copy can't open the database any more. Sometime during that year you get a pop-up message that says 'Updating Database.' There is no option to decline. You, a loyal customer who has a standalone copy, decides that the current subscription price is acceptable and you sign up for a year.
