That type of presumption must also lead you to brand folks like me a "pirate". I have bryce, poser5, Cinema4d 8, Vue, Deep Exploration, Painter8 ,PSP and Zbrush. I use but a few of these and do not even have them all loaded on my PC at present but will get around to them one day. Still, I seem to remember buying them and having neither hooked hand nor a parrot, I am no high seas bandit. You missed out a somewhat obvious possibility, drac, and that it some people have enough cash on their hands to buy what they like, as I do. If you need to be the greatest 3D master to own these then I have not heard of this rule but maybe you know better. I don't really care for the, guilty by presumption and cynicism attitude, and neither I suspect, will others.