"For that matter, if they were forcing us to sign up for 'rosity, RDNA, or any other such place to get product updates I'd be shouting just as loud." well lets see. to get Daz studio,... you sign up to the STORE. when you update windows... your serial is checked (SR1 - SR2) and if it's Bad it's rejected... shall we carry on with each and every software package that checks serials for updates? hmmm? see a pattern? this is life. deal with it. there again, as randy said "And I'm going to keep on squeaking." says it all really when you replace "squeaking" for "whining".