I never bought a locked model; either I got the unlocked one or, for locked-only models, simply looked somewhere else (not TurboSquid or similar places, prices in those places suggest the assumption unhealthy amouts of meth).

The locked-content was also a potent stimulus for me to learn modeling and become indipendent of such chains and now I can gladly report that:
1 - I don't remember the last time I bought models for Vue and...
2 - that I am a happy (and free from chains) Blender (2.57 is coming out in these hours!), Wings3D and SketchUp user.

People in this thread enthusiast for locked-content should ask themselves how many sales they have lost because of those chains, and, in cases like me, how many people have motivated to become self reliant (losing us as customers FOREVER). Maybe some more illegal copies would have been a smaller damage, who knows?

Bye.

GIMP 2.7.4, Inkscape 0.48, Genetica 3.6 Basic, FilterForge 3 Professional, Blender 2.61, SketchUp 8, PoserPro 2012, Vue 10 Infinite, World Machine 2.3, GeoControl 2