Daz may want Poser's name, but hey the game ain't over with yet. Let a bad owner let it get in really bad shape first and just want out and they'll get it for 3 million not six. They have solutions already and let's face it the expectations are growing on Poser's future releases. In order to make a big splash it needs a new look and to be completly rewritten for stability and function sake not to mention future improvements. I don't think it's so much that it needs more bells and whistles as much as it needs to have the ones it has improved. If the program itself gets too technical it's not going to be the gateway program anymore. It will be another high end app like the rest. Do high enders make up the majority of new Poser sales? For that matter do they make up the majority of content buyers? 

Piracy is a fact of life. Windows is still being pirated. Life goes on. There are too many countries still that don't enforce piracy laws.