1) We won't drop the security, we feel it's the right thing to do. It's more of an inconvenience to order a book on Amazon, or buy concert tickets on line But once you've got the book or the ticket, you've got it, and it won't need reinstalling on an upgraded system, or whatever. And if people can't buy via Amazon they pay cash at a bookshop in the old way, and there are bookshops all over the place, far more than there are software shops. Snazzy (message 7) wrote about when Apple II tried software locks long ago and it failed. Why try it again?