Deborah, Please understand, we are only checking to see if a Poser serial number is in use, at the same time, on another machine, on your local area network (this means networked computers in your home, not the internet). This is a practice that Adobe, Quark and File Maker as well as a huge number of other software developers have implemented to prevent unauthorized copies of their software from running across multiple machines. We are not checking passswords. There is no data about you or your computer transmitted to us or to anyone else. Jim Artist3D, Everyone at Curious Labs was attending Siggraph in New Orleans, with most of us returning back home to California on late Sunday. We needed time to see exactly what the problem was and decide what could be done before issuing a statement. Officially, I know that our implementation of a network serialization check that prevents the illegal use of a single license of Poser across a network of multiple machines does not constitute any wrong doing on our part. Sincerely, Steve Cooper Curious Labs