First, I understand the fact Curious Labs want to protect their rights, but : 1. I bought my Poser 4 some months before Metacreations'affair ( see Maci's post ). I sent several mails about my registration and there is still no way to register on the site ?! 2. Got the French version of Poser and many folders got french names ( "bibliothues" instead of "libraries" ), so I need to move files from folders to another ones in order that Poser see the files... ( think it's the same for german version too ) Off topic ?! No. Just to say that it costed me quite a month of salary when I bought it, and I'm affraid of being forced for next versions ( don't have the pro pack now )to call CL in order to have a key. So if I install it on Sunday, I got to wait until Monday while the guy who got a pirated version will run a crack or a keymaker and will be able to run it in minutes... Crashdisk... new installation ... new hard drive... new call ... new wait ... and the bad guy still win . Everybody knows this protection will be cracked, they all are... so please, don't make the life of your legal customers worse than the one of Poser thieves. And I never understood how companies can say warez copies are lost sales. I doubt all the people who got a warez copy of studio max to be potential customers for Discreet, no ?! For me, Poser was an upper-mass market product, but why choosing Lightwave or Max exports in the ProPack for this kind of product. Someone who have Max ( I'm talking about legal license ) don't need Poser to animate, or maybe just the Zygote models... He already has greater animation possibilities than the ones offered by Poser, no ?! I think people are waiting for a program which is able to render ( new render engine ), animate and pose, all in just one program... I love Poser, that's my favourite program with Photoshop ( Adobe registration is great, they send updates via mail delivery and even if Photoshop is far more pirated than Poser, they kept their serial number protection due to customers respect I think ). So, great Curious Labs people, make Poser on Floppy Disk, PCI card ( lol ) but respect me... I buy a program, and I want to be able to install, use it whenever I want :) The community changed ( everything that is saleable or not is sold ), Curious Labs changed ( witch hunt...but still waiting for Poser 5 news )... Take care of me with technological progress and artistic possibilities, I deserve it because I'm a legal customer, and I should be your priority !!! Truly yours Renault David AKA joelegecko joelegecko@wanadoo.fr ( working hard on a project, so excuse the language mistakes, I need to sleep :)