"Here, here" casamerica and LadySilverMage. Obviously your customers opinions do not matter to you as much as you claim. Or you would listen rather then keep throwing out cheesy analogies that make no sense. As far as other software companies that add locks, want to take a guess how many of them I have on my system? Nevermind...I'll tell you. None. When you start caring about customers more than fighting warez boogey men....I may buy another product from you. Until then, forget it. I don't take kindly to being treated like a thief or having to ask you damn permission when I upgrade my hard drive. One more thing. If Microsoft can't beat the warez pirates and hackers....what makes you think you can? Guess what....WindowsXP aka. Whistler is already out on the warez sites. I've seen people talking about it on other forums. I even saw one person give the URL to download the cracked version before I told the Admin and they deleted the post. Fat lotta good all their security measures did them. Fat lotta good yours will do you. The only thing I see it doing is making myself and several other customers NOT want to buy products from you anymore.