Steve ...Egi.sys is currently looking into German law. as far as the rest of Europe, I don't know and can't comment on that... That sounds good to me - I don't think that you can force a customer in Germany to re-register a software-product everytime he wants to install it on a new PC (or a new drive, or reinstall it after a crash...). And I don't think that you can do that in a bugfix! I bought the buggy product without the copy protection-nonsense and now I want to have a bugfix without the copy protection-nonsense.