@JoFeen
The limitations was to make it harder for income tax thieves from filing thousands of fraudulent returns ... it was not meant for the honest person like you. By needing to purchase separate programs and install them on different computers it makes it more costly for the fraudsters and this has slowed them down but sadly did not eleminate them completely.
Now as to your situation ... you can use one of the IRS FREE FILE options or the TT Free online option for all of the "friends & family" that qualifies. The other option would be to have them paper file as the limitation on the downloaded program is 5 efiles.
