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I think it's an actual gray area without an ideal answer in today's market. Really you should buy an mp3 upgrade license for twenty-five cents, but they don't sell those. One way to look at it is vinyl is Windows 3.1, mp3 is Windows XP. Having bought 3.1 doesn't give you the right to "steal" XP, but a Windows upgrade is less costly than the initial purchase.
If you get Strongbox, you're getting several things from us, and we're getting paid for several things. You're getting installation service and new customer support, and you're getting the right to use that version for as long as you care to use it - eventually you'll probably want to upgrade. We're getting paid for the install, the new customer support, for the year I spent developing version 1.0 without getting paid yet, and the thousands of hours of development since then. A year or two down the road you can get an update at a much lower cost. With the update, you're buying continued support, which costs us less than new customer support, and you're buying the least two years of development. You get less of an increase than from the initial purchase, it costs us less, and yoy pay less.
I think it's similar - outdated software is like outdated music formats, you don't want to carry a phonograph around, and vinyl does wear out, so you want to replace and upgrade, but ideally you should get credit for already buying the license for the music, thus upgrade pricing.
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