Can't run C1 unless I'm online

This new "upgrade" is something of a gigantic pain in the backside. I've been using C1 LE v 3 for at least 2 years now and never had a problem activating the software. I've had to reactivate on upgrades within C1 LE 3 and again when I had to rebuild my system and reinstall everything. No problem at any time.

I've apparently "activated" the program (at least that's what the activation system tells me) but I can't run the program unless I'm online. I'm assuming that there is some kind of problem here because why would anyone insist that you be online to use a program like this if it's installed on your own system and (theoretically) activated?

Is anyone else having licensing and activation problems. I had no problem with either of the beta versions of this program.

I also don't like the cache system! What do we have to do? Go in and manually delete all of the cache files when we're finished processing our RAW files? I can't see any point in keeping them.

At this rate I'll just go back to using C1 LE v374 or whatever it is. Never had a problem with it. It's activated and running nicely thank you very much.

C56 😕