Pretty sure I saw a thread, maybe sticky, or message here that gave people free use of CIS. Not a scam, official. Is that still going or do we all have to pay again?
There was a thread that would give a free license of CIS Complete to those who couldn’t afford it, but it was closed due to abuse.
But as L.A.R. Grizzly mentioned, CIS Premium is, was, and always will be, free. The CIS application itself is exactly the same in the free and paid versions. The paid versions add additional services to CIS, like GeekBuddy and TrustConnect.