paid subscription to snort rules?

Since the snort rules are now being pulled from the emerging threats website has anyone considered using a paid subscription from the emerging threats database?  It's quite cheap for a yearly personal subscription.  Anyone capable of generating the syntax to make this work?   I know I am not that guy...  :-)

Do you have any info on a personal ET Pro subscription? I could only find commercial enterprise level pricing.

I was looking at the snort pricing not the ET pricing.  ET is still 750 which is to rich for my blood.  I am planning on reaching out to ET asking about a personal pricing option.   will let you know what response i get or lack thereof....

Two emails and zero response.    I guess that door is closed..

That's too bad... thanks for trying to reach out to them though.

I talked to Emerging Threats around 2 years ago (before they got bought by Looking Glass) at Black Hat, and they were pretty against offering personal subscriptions.  Apparently they did at some point, but there was enough abuse from businesses that they discontinued the option.

I would consider ETPro a dead end for most users.  Getting the Talos Snort rules in place may not be as difficult, though.  Does anyone know what's downloading the rules, and if they're using pulledpork or a different script?

Oinkmaster and pulledpork will both work with the talos rules. I haven't tried them though on the shield.