Hi folks. I am one of the people who publishes models for Vue, sometimes here, and very often at Cornucopia3d. (And one of the persons concerned about the copy protection scheme.) I do publish almost all my models at Cornucopia3D using the full encryptation scheme there. For Phantast's sake, I do this because I am tired of seeing my models stolen and brokered on Russian and other sites, and especially their textures. The models require time and effort to build, sometimes as much as three week's work each - even if they are seem to be just "minor items", and even if I am not charging very much for them. Also, it has taken me much time and expense to purchase woods to scan for textures, and to take photos of wood textures. Perhaps two year's constant work to amass a sufficient collection of wood textures to model my Japanese items with authenticity. So, I was happy to see Cornucopia's copyright protection scheme, and I have not minded charging extra low prices for products there, because I know they won't be easily pirated. I know that if people want to purchase my products without the encryptation so that they can use them more freely in other applications, they can always contact me personally, and I always make these available in almost any known format. I am very happy to do so. But, I do charge the "market rate" for models in the *.3ds , *.obj, *.max and other formats than I do for the encyrpted versions at Cornucopia. However, I was a little concerned about the cumbersomeness of that copyright/encryptation scheme, given the new version of Vue coming out. I've been informed that the E-On people are aware of this issue and have been working for awhile now to determine how best to deal with it. There is at least one technical way, even I know of, to deal with this so that customers still will have a smooth and simple experience, and not be made to unduely bear the burden of my wish for some form of copyright protection. Apparently, the E-On staff also are aware of that potential solution and are considering it. So, we'll just have to wait and see. Probably none of us vendors want to make customers bear the brunt of our desires to protect our work. But, it might help everyone to know that while we modellers do our work mostly for the deep satisfaction of bringing new things into the world that haven't existed before, we do spend hundreds of hours working on our "stuff" to make it as good as possible, and we hate to see long work later sold around the world for $0.25. ...and the Pope didn't make me say this!