"The protection system will become the plaything of crackers for the short time it takes them to destroy it, then Poser and PPP will become available again to those who wouldn't pay for it anyway." had to quote PJF on that one... That's the thing that keeps getting stated in these and overlooked or shunted aside because it's inconvenient. The loss of revenue that's being shouted about is projected and largely imaginary - 80 to 90% of the people pirating the software wouldn't pay for it in the first place. That's why they're pirating it, and why they're visiting warez sites looking for freebies in the first place. That's revenue they will never see even if they succeed in making the software unstealable. [Like that's going to happen... ] Likewise, people who crack and pirate games don't buy legetimate games. It's the honest schmucks like me that eat the $49 to $59 cost of actually buying a brand new compuetr game.

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• Monkeysmell