Poser 5 with SR4 does not access the internet unless you connect to Content Paradise. Other than that, what your personal firewall might denote as a connection to internet is the network serial check that was introduced with Poser 4.0.3 four years ago. It is a broadcast, and broadcasts are per definition local - no router or gateway would ever forward broadcast traffic, therefore this is not a connection to the internet. In addition, most personal firewalls check the integrity of programs by creating a hash or checksum over the entire executable. If you update an application (for example through SR4), this checksum is different, because the program code has changed. Then, personal firewalls often discard the previously set rules and ask what to do. I assume this is the reason for the repeated discussion of this topic after each update. As far as bypassing the anti-piracy measurements is concerned, this was done as part of SR2. Since the Service Releases are cumulative patches, and SR3 and SR4 carry all SR2 modifications, it is justified to say that also SR3 and SR4 bypass those anti-piracy measurements, even though the logic hasn't been changed since SR2. Makes sense?