> In the "before times" limitations were either a fact of the hardware (i.e. you only have so much RAM, storage, CPU cycles, etc) or of your own ability (you don't know how to crack the protection, defeat the anti-debug tricks, etc).
Not if you’re a mainframe customer. Capacity based licensing has been a standard practice in the mainframe world for around 50 years.
On the other hand, the confusingly named DIVX (not the codec) expiring DVD-esque format (so you could play the DVD for 48 hours after purchase, and then after that you had to pay to watch it again. The format totally failed in the market and brought down Circuit City.
Not if you’re a mainframe customer. Capacity based licensing has been a standard practice in the mainframe world for around 50 years.