DITTO!!!!! I am sorry to be rude or accusatory, but to me this copy protection scheme smells strongly of professional business consultant, or of someone trying to sell protection schemes, and not at all of someone who knows much about being an ordinary hobby and small business computer user. I suspect that CL have been misled by some visiting bunch of professional consultants who are out largely for profit. I don't blame CL: business rep types can be very persuasive. It was so with the "Sun" computer firm's logo: Sun ran a competition among its staff, and the logo was invented by a man in its packing department; but after that, a bunch of professional business consultants charged Sun over $10,000 merely to tell them to have that logo blue and standing on one corner. I don't know what heated online discussions like this are happening on other Poser and Bryce related email groups and forums across the internet, and in personal emails, but I suspect that it is a lot. CL should pull out of any agreement to use that copy protection, or at least be propared to have it go so badly wrong in PPP that they will have to drop it for Poser 5. To me, in police work there is no magic wand and no substitute for the "man on the beat"; in anti-warez policing there is no substitute for endlessly persistenly patrolling the web for warez sites and having them one by one closed down. And as regards trying to stop casual copying or installing on several computers: it happens, it has always happened, and it won't be stopped without such severe measures that it will discourage users. To many people, $500 is a lot of money, and likely very namy sales of Poser etc happen only because several people can club together to buy a copy, and if they couldn't copy or multi-install, that sale wouldn't have happened.