"They have grown blind to the real world. Poser will be dead soon." This response isn't directed only to the person who originally made this comment, but to respond to this thread as a whole. Having to implement some sort of protection for software is not growing blind to the "real world." It's facing it head on. Smaller software companies such as CL are in a precarious position, because piracy is a serious threat to their survival. I currently own software from at least three other manufacturers that use software locks or authorization procedures, and I'm sure there are many other software manufacturers who are going to implement these types of protection in the near future. I'm sure that most software companies (CL included) would like nothing more than to be able to write software WITHOUT having to worry about piracy issues. But software piracy is a real threat to software companies, no matter how large or small they are. Development and marketing costs are stiff, and if they don't put SOME sort of protection on their software, they'll go out of business. I speak from a unique perspective, because I am a software user who also had the opportunity to work for a major software developer. They implemented a similar authorization scheme that is now used in all of their software. Believe me, it was not an easy decision for the programmers and management to include some sort of protection scheme in their software. They took a lot of heat for it at first from their user base, just as CL is taking the heat now. So let's give CL some leeway and support. They are trying to keep Poser alive and well and living on for those of us who really enjoy using the software. If it means having to authorize yet another software product for me to continue using the "latest and greatest" version, so be it. I'm in! Denise