Ron, once again: The point is not software protection, the point is that there are a lot of ways to protect your software w/o violating the privacy of your costumers. "But please, don't persecute them for it .." I think you should consider that CL isn't just 2 or 3 nice guys sitting in a garage making Poser. CL is a quite big Company, so they can't expect any merci from my side. Make a mistake in business and you'll have to pay for it, c'est la guerre. I'm much more sorry for all these people who trust in CL, get dependent on them and now have to pay the bill for CLs idea of a software protection. (OK, actually it's an idea from microsoft) "Don't put them up on a cross and lynch them .." As a human beeing who work with Poser since the first version I'm just sad about this situation. As the owner of a (quite small) company I don't have any emotions. It's quite easy: I see a suplier that is up to violate my rights, I don't like the way he is behaving toward his costumers in this situation, I can't see that he is willing to cange his mind and his products are not irreplaceable for my work. So he's out - fullstop. "But I also refuse to believe that they should be boycotted because of it [the security methods]. That's just plain ridiculous and will only serve to harm the community in the end." I'm not interessting at all in a crusade against CL They made there decision I made mine, thats all. But as you try so hard to understand CLs decision I hope you'll understand my decision too and don't blame me for this situation. Living w/0 Poser might be hard, living w/o privacy is worse. regards Thomas