carolelee ....the wording 'unlimited downloads' would refer to no 'cap' on the annual download, as with the subscriber not having a limit.

Nothing as I ever recall  mentioned 'unlimited' for eternity.

To receive a product/service you first need to pay for that product/service.  EG, you bought an SD product...[WB]...and you received that product....and as a 'bonus', while you were a 'current customer' you also had NO LIMITATION on your downloading .....that was the 'bonus' attributed to the customer 'currency'.

With Object Desktop this is less of a 'drama' as it 'needs' a renewal subscription each year which maintains customer currency.

No-one in their right mind would [or should] assume that 200 years after a single product purchase Stardock should still be subsidising an ex-customer's bandwidth use.....nor should that 'load' be expected to be paid by current subscribers.

Remember, every time a person downloads anything from the site....it costs 'someone'....and that is generally Stardock.

$20 for a product [Windowblinds] AND a few Gig of downloads [reasons why or not is immaterial] is pretty darn good....a cent a meg for the skins...and you get the WB proggy for nix...