Steve: 20) I'd like your comment on the following. The only people that will suffer from such software protection measures are the legitimate buyers of the product. Every single piece of software protection so far, including SoftImage/Maya's FlexLM server-based locks and 3DSMAX's hardware dongles have been cracked. I think that its pretentious of you to believe that your software protection will hold up any better. Its only a matter of time until a someone releases a key-generator or crack for your product. Therefore, illigitimate users will be able to generate their own keys or circumvent your authorization while we, the legal purchasers of your software will be severely inconvenienced by the authorization process. I'm not going to go into detail about how we will be inconvenienced or what legal implications this method of software protection may have -- the other posters have done that for me. I'd just like to hear why you think that this software protection method is going to be uncrackable, and why its worth angering every one of your legitimate users.