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Software is intellectual property authored by an individual or virtual individual (corporation). That individual has two choices- give it away (linux) or protect it zealously. Code, good code, is an artform. If your art was stolen from... say the art gallery, and became an image for the history books (r.Crumb Keep on truckin, most widely ripped off artwork in recent times) without any financial compensation... how would you react? I've been away for a couple of days, and find this whole controversy rather odd. Curious Labs owes us absolutely nothing except creating more and better refined products for us (their user base) to purchase at regular intervals. Support, tech- all this is an investment for them in their market share. If corel comes out with a new package called "posing" or adobe introduces "poserpeople", how loyal will you feel to Curious without this "community" and their efforts to maintain it? Copy protection will be a pain in the ass. It will also close down a significant number of people who discover Poser through those warez and fall in love. Those in love usually buy the next version, sight unseen. Kai Krause, former lord of Metacreations, used to consider his power tools and bryce to be ethicsware. If you used it more than once a month, ethically you had to buy it. That was long ago and far away. Ultimately, Curious will do what is necessary to put food on the table. You decide with your dollars whether or not to eat. Its called capitalism. Mitch