Perhaps they could adopt the approach of Cubase. They supply a floppy with the CD that has to be inserted after software installation. This places a key on the hard drive so that the software in question will only run on that drive and you no longer have to keep installing the floppy. The problem is if your hard drive is erased you lose the key. But Cubase have thought of this allowing the floppy to install the key twice. Then you can send away for a new floppy returning the old floppy to get back the two keys. Allowing you to continue work. You can also uninstall the key back to the floppy and take the software to another machine (a new MC). Without the key on the original MC the software will not work. So it only works on one MC at a time. Hope this makes sense. The issue here is that if the CD becomes corrupt/scratched/damaged you have to stop work and wait for a replacement and could lose the client as a result. This is what concerns me about animation master also. The ability to continue to work. I have spent a fortune on software and am all for legal software. It is tax deductable and VAT deductable. I hope that Software companies come up with a solution to enable users to carry on working and prevent piracy.