Uhh, so if I bought Poser 5 or whatever, I would only be allowed 3 loads or reloads from the CD-ROM from ther wrong wide of the Atlantic and then I would have to time-wastingly formally apply for permission with a lot of officialese checks on identity etc to be allowed more reloads? I can't simply go and buy another Poser on another CD-ROM, as here I hardly ever find Poser or Bryce in a software shop, I must order it and wait for it to come to me, at snail-mail speed both ways plus more delay. And, as many people have said, it wouldn't stop or even reduce the warezing for long, once the inevitable hacked version that doesn't need the code gets around the warez sites. That being so, there is no point in having the software lock, except to cause inconvenience to legitimate users.