iloco said: "This is what I ment by reading before posting and coming to a conclusion. It is a known fact all over the Internet that Carara 5 is in beta and can be used by carrara people with no strings attached." Excuse me, but I'm fairly certain I'm on solid ground in saying that at least 96% of 'The Internet' has no clue what Cararra is, never mind any interest in it. I certainly haven't seen any sign of it elsewhere... "This is what causes a lot of these flames when people butt in not knowing the facts. :)" If you are referring to the locked thread, I do believe that Lyne posted about a success she had with Infinite. Not a fanboyish 'This IS The Way Of All Things!', but a simple "I'm happy!' post. Only to be immediately piled on by a group of evangelists for a product (a)not related to the forum, and (b)is not commercially available yet. Those were the -facts-. And the forum moderator locked it when things went too bloody far into the region of evangelism. look up the word, sometimes. Oh, and that freedom of speech thing works both ways. "People you can let e-on know what you not satisfied with and not flame others doing it. I have not liked the encryption, copy protection from day 1 when it was announced." I feel it safe to say everyone who bothers to read the relevant boards figured that one out long ago. So why do you bother to continually repeat yourself? It doesn't add weight to your argument. And you can let E-on know anything you want....through their official website. Because big surprise here, they do not have the time to be webcrawlers, and there is no one who bothers combing all the fora and compiling a list and sending it to E-on's staff. The colloquialism 'farting into a hurricane' comes to mind here regarding what effect the Vue fora actually have at the company. "Reason being it want keep people from using warez versions of it which can be found all over the Internet. Same will happen with the models. Prove me wrong if can. I personaly think its caused more problems than what it is worth software wise and hard feelings with lots of people." So by that logic, no software should have any kind of registration, and all these companies should just give it all away because some twit can reverse engineer and post it to usenet or P2P. The entire point that you seem to have missed with the key encryption scheme is that it ties =that particular plant or purchase= to the registered copy of =one person's application=. Making it quite a bit easier to find out who put the copyrighted material on the net in the first place. It isn't about 'prevention', and it never has been; it's about having the ability to track the little scab down who did it, so legal action can be taken if neccesary. Both Davo and Dendras (and I'm fairly sure quite a few other vendors have as well) introduced file variances into their for sale items, so that if something ever showed up where it shouldn't, they would know exactly who bought it to begin with.