If you are angry about firm politics add this as a comment, but do not rate a good product bad. This is unfair behaviour for the one has nothing to do with the other. The review is to tell other people how the product works.
And this is a great product. In my opinion ist's the best compression all-in-one on the market. It's very easy to use, it's fast, it provides a useful functionality, it is stable and not expensive.
(For OS X users: you can also try "Mac OS X Encoding Plethora" which is a free script collection which does a good job, but I will stick to Stuffit, if you compare you'll maybe see why)

By the way: The reason for the sharpened download politics for Stuffit is easy: until Version 8 you could just download Stuffit Standard and use it forever. After launching you just klicked "Not yet". Everybody did it. Nobdoy paid. This is the Problem of shareware. Now you have to give your email and after 30 days of using without paying it's over. Whose fault?
By the way 2: has anybody tried to unsubscribe after buying the product?