[SixDouble5321]

Doesn't sound like you have used Spinrite, but if you don't think it's worth the money don't buy it. Not sure what makes you think a developer has to reduce the price of their software, just because it's old. Adobe has done no such thing. The software still does what it did when it was first made. If you have a bug report, file it, my guess is that you don't.

[MertsA]

And I doubt you've ever bought the Brooklyn Bridge but that doesn't mean you can't call out the con artist trying to sell it. The price of the snake oil isn't the problem. The problem is that he's scamming people out of money making a bunch of claims that fundamentally do not apply to modern drives. If you have a MFM hard drive that still spins after all this time and you want to do whatever low level interleave Spinrite supports on it then sure, it probably works just as well as it did back when that hardware didn't qualify as antique. Most people getting suckered into buying Spinrite aren't going to have anything that ancient and for what Spinrite can actually do on somewhat modern drives, you might as well just use ddrescue, it'll do a better job.

> If you have a bug report, file it, my guess is that you don't.

This is extra hilarious in light of the fact that there have been plenty of bug reports against 6.0 reported well over a decade ago. Steve promised they'll be fixed in 6.1 which is totally coming out any day now.