I'm really glad I just switched to Daz Studio - Bye Bye future Poser versions.

Well I guess, as Daz Studio is free, no one wants to pirate it.  It is not clear yet if future versions of Poser will have this form of activation or if it will be just be upgrades of the Game Version, who knows. As it stands it is not an issue for me as I am connected to the internet and can revert to Poser 2014 if Game Dev were de-activated.  I do understand though that others might dislike this process and vote with their feet/credit card and only SM can decide if the loss of some customers is out weighed by restricting the pirating.
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I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.