JetBrains rep here.<p>&quot;Phoning home&quot; is actually not new. We&#x27;ve introduced JetBrains Account as a way of authorizing a product instance (as an alternative to license keys) for a couple of years now.<p>Current student licenses work exactly the same way, as well as a part of classroom and OS licenses AFAIK. A lot of current personal and some commercial licenses are managed through a JetBrains Account as well.<p>With the new scheme, JetBrains Account will simply gain more usage than now, hard-coded license keys will eventually go away, but a license server option for environments that have restricted Internet connection will be provided the same as it is now.<p>Now, there might be certain additional steps we might need to take to ensure license delivery in certain scenarios but we&#x27;ll be handling this as we receive specific problem reports.