#1: I have 2 possible answers to that; answer 1 is, it's not for you, it's for people with scene files under 100mb who are doing a LONG animation. Answer 2 is, I'll set you up with a shell account running SMS 2.0, you send me the DVD/CD with the stuff on it (encrypted, of course) i'll mount it, you can access your shell account, unencrypt your media, then launch the render locally. 2# I would think they wouldn't be real happy about it. However, as long as no one started creating additional public nodes, and then tieing them together in some fashion, I don't think it would get them too bent out of shape. 3# smallest problem; my main server already has VPN set up, it's virtually no problem. I'm still working on this, BTW.