"its funny though how the same people that were so adamant about crucifying the evil warez people who pirated anton's work were ranting about how they didnt like the software protection in the new upgrade -- put there to stop warez." I have absolutely nothing against CL. But the only people copy protection inconveniences is the user. Crackers will crack the code within hours of release. On ANY software. There are two methods of cracking programs. Decompilers are the first and most commonly used method. Basically a Decompiler opens the source code and lets you rewrite the program. The secind method, less commonly used is Photoshop. You heard me. You can open certain program files as RAW files in Photoshop, go down to the pixel level, and if you know the correct pixels to focus on, you simply change the pixel color. It's like flipping a switch from off to on. How do I know all this? I know everything> I make it my business to know everything. I have no clue as to how to actually do it myself. I can't even deal with a command line function in a software program like Rhino. Hopeless at programming. But I know how it's done, and I also know that software is incredibly easy for a skilled cracker to beat, no matter how high end it is or what the protections are. And these people do NOTHING else than spend all their time cracking. I belong to several warez newsgroups. Not because I ever download any, because lord knows them folks could hike a virus in on anyone at antime and I ain't takin that chance. Besides, I've learned that warez versions usually don't work as well as legit versions. But you can literally find ANY program on the newsgroups for download. Hell, they take requests. I understand CLs desire to protect their software. It's futile but I understand it. If I had the brains to program I'd want to protect my stuff too. My problem occurs when ANY software is able to access anything on my computer from the internet. And I don't think that bashing CL is gonna help either them or rosity or anyone. In my other post in that discussion, I was careful not to mention CL at all, only to express my objection to anyone but me having access to the contents of my puter. I think CL did great actually, by keeping Poser alive. More power to em. I hope they look at all these posts and perhaps rethink their strategy on some things.

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