Movida, -Yes, lightwave is pirated all over the place and Newtek is doing fine. This says NOTHING about casual copying. I bet you wouldn't have as many sales if there were NO copy protection with Lightwave at all and the people who don't know about the warez sites COULDN'T make copies. -I wasn't insinuating that YOU copy software and give it to YOUR friends; doing it and saying it's okay are two different things. -As I said earlier, software protection (in my opinion) DOES stop casual copying. Just because YOU have no friends who are into graphic software doesn't mean that there are 50 other people in your neighborhood who are - and know each other. - And what if Newtek decides to implement a similar protection scheme? What if you have to call in every time you reformat your machine? Will you still buy it? -"If it was my product do you really think I'd care if it were pirated...hell I'd be flattered." I should be so lucky too. But what if your livelihood were at stake? What if you needed that software income to survive (ie, make a decxent living?) -There probably isn't one piece of software that performs perfectly as advertised. There is always a glitch or a bug - although obviously some more so than others. If you can't find it someone else has. If we had to return every piece of software that didn't perform preceisely as advertised we wouldn't have any software. And I like Poser 4 and PP - they both do what I need them to do. Sure there are glitches, but they will be fixed. Nothing in this world is perfect. -Time? I just started my own business and I HAVE NO FREE/SPARE TIME at all. I check out Renderosity just to take a break. So it suffices to say that time for me is a precious commodity. I don't need to waste it but I understand that companies like CL feel they need to protect their investment. I will spend the extra MINUTE (yes, minute, if that) e-mailing them for the registration number. And if every piece of software ends up like this, well, it's something we'll all have to live with if we want to use the software. As they (CL) stated, the software will be fully functional for two weeks anyway. What happens if/when all software becomes (as so many are predicting) "borrowed" over the internet - you just use it when you need it and pay for it when you use it? I hope this doesn't happen but it may. Then where will we be? And you thought calling or e-mailing for a registration number was bad...