First, everybody is correct, the problem is with Smith Micro that added in calling the mothership every time you fired up the software. Rendo just did what it had to to make the software work with SM closing down their authentication server. If you want a new feature in the next major version of Poser to be NOT calling the mothership every time you crank it up now would be a good time to ask for it.

EULA's in general are a bigger question. That you need to call your congress critter about and ask to have laws limiting those things. It isn't just software, many large companies are enforcing binding arbitration the same way. If this annoys you, and it should, you need to let them know it's a priority if they want to continue to get elected.