They do anything like this and I will NEVER, EVER buy any of their products again! If this is true... they are MORONS... they will alienate and/or lose MANY of their true customers in an effort to stop a few illegitimate ones. I too condone reasonable attempts to get rid of so illegal copying... what is proposed above is NOT reasonable. That's even worse than a hardware dongle key! Guess it's time to start saving up for 3DMax, looks like my days of patroning Poser will end at version 4.