Hi Karen,Steve, "I'd just like to ask you what your idea of a small company really is?" You are a part of the egy.sys AG right? But I think that's not the realy important point. "But if that is what you wish to do, how can we talk you out of it?" That's quite easy, here a quotation from my post to Anthony: --------------------------------------------------- "..I'm not very happy about any software protection because they are almost useless but waste my time. But I love poser and would accept any resonable protection system if you can make one thing sure: I don't want to be forced to have any further contact to the supplier after I've register the product. ...." --------------------------------------------------- you can read the full story in the nosfiratu post below. "It's too bad that it would be more difficult for you to live without piracy than Poser. That's a sad statement. I hope I misunderstood." You did, but it shouldn't be a problem to scroll up and read again ;). "...regarding post 9. Please point me in the direction of this easier protection." For PPP you could get access to the Lightwave and Max dongle, there could be a copy protected CD, you could put an individual code on every copy, so its easy to find out where a copy that's on a warez site came from. Just a brainstorming, if you are seriously interested in a discussing about that, no problemo send me a mail. "There is an authorization required in addition to the dongle" Yes once and that's the point "...I'm not sure. So am I, can only repeat what the guys in the support forum told me. " ... We had to do this several times during testing. Ours will be much easier ..." But it will violate my privacy. I can't understand where's the problem to get this point. May let me say it this way: After register your product according to european law I own it and you guys should let me in peace and should not force me to have any further contact to your company. "Don't call me, I'll call you". Hope I could make this clear finaly. regards Thomas