Just saw this @ Theregister.co.uk

A week ago scanner giant UMAX began to charge its US customers for driver updates that were previously free as a web download.

PC users expecting to get XP drivers, and Macintosh users expecting to get upgrades to Mac OS X had a shock in store. Device drivers that were previously available as a free download had been withdrawn, and users were now invited to pay for a CD-ROM version.

Update: This was post in the comments by UMAX-Europe!

Sorry, but this Statement is absolutely wrong. The reason why the drivers are not offered is, because UMAX in United States have outsourced their support and for them it's to expensive to run their own fileserver.(UMAX Taiwan did the development, but global UMAX Companies are independent from Taiwan, they have to pay their own bills) Nearly all drivers are still available on UMAX Taiwan FTP-Server ftp.umax.com.tw , some of the latest drivers are not offered as update Versions, because they are only available as complete CD. If anyone is willing to host 650MB, he can contact me at Thomas@umax.de :-)

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