Anti-Piracy techniques are the bane of my existance. I use a removable hard drive. I have my programs installed on the removable because I don't want to buy two copies of everything when one copy will suffice. If Adobe pulls a Microsoft and the serial number is based on my CPU... now I have to buy TWO copies, when I am perfectly within my rights to have the software installed on my removable drive since technically it is only in one place. Personally, I think it's BS that reducing piracy would affect the price of the software. Let's not kid ourselves... the companies want profit. Less piracy means more profit. If they lower the price, it means lower profits. Not going to happen. They may not RAISE the price.... but I wouldn't put it past them. Plus... I think the argument companies use about pirating driving up prices is silly. They really have NO statistical data on how many sales they lose to piracy. The fact of the matter is, according to articles I've read, the majority of pirating is going on overseas, where they mass produce software and re-sale it. Piracy in the states mostly takes the form of kids and college students (who wouldn't have bought it anyway because they don't have the money) downloading and cracking programs. Not that I'm condoning piracy in any way... but I just don't agree with the proganda and over-inflated statistics that the software companies are using to jack up prices and make legitimate users jump through hoops. If I wanted to jump thru hoops... I'd join a circus.