Ernie, I hear your pain. First, thank you for posting this. As I researched why you weren't aware of our "hampering", I discovered we don't inform you at all!
We will modify our Demo version to show the "hampering dialog" first thing when it runs. Then everyone will know. Somehow this got removed in the current demo (maybe earlier
).
The "gaps" you hear are where we are adding in low amplitude tone beeps to hamper the audio. That is the only way a software producer can protect an audio program.
We've tried other ways and they all get hacked.
Yes, the days of honesty and "paying for what you use" are gone. In 2000, our DNoise demo would only process a 2 minute length and then write it out. Within the month we release it, a French web site had captured our demo (so we got NO advantages at all) and over 40,000 people had downloaded it. Our sales went to 1 per month so you can see why we don't put out "working" demos any more. Sorry for that, but you can see if it will run on your computer.