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I suppose I object most to the idea that CL wants to do something secret on my HD. That just rubs me the wrong way. I want trust. CL reps talk about how this is a direction many other software companies are/will be taking. I object to that. But they are indeed correct. Did you know there are big plans underway to have every IDE drive have a serial no/copy protection/encryption scheme? It's not just CL, it the whole industry. I plan to fight that every way I can--just like we fought (and have won so far) the id no. in your Pentium processor. Check out the link to this John Gilmore article. He states my point much better than I will get out here. I seem to remember Adobe (now a CL partner) being a leader in not having locked software in the 80's when us designers and techs objected vociferously (and also won that battle). Yes, I know they have some similar thing now on on GoLive, I think. Dreamweaver doesn't. I don't want to have a note from my doctor to do what I want with software I buy. Once I buy it, that's the end of the relationship as far as I'm concerned. You don't have my permission to do anything secret on my hard drive, or require any ongoing contact for me to use it. This whole thing is very much repeating the past to me. And the excuse is that there are so many people on the Internet that extra measures are needed. I don't buy that. Seems like an invasive excuse (not just from CL but the whole industry). Please don't move this thread to C&D, I think this is important enough to be here. --Patrick Snazzy Graphics