SmithMicro incorporated it as a security measure against thieves beginning with PoserPro 2014 GameDev ... and Bondware decided to keep that feature and make it phone home more often. There are a lot of threads about this here in the forum. I prefer not to voice my opinion.

Upgrade: I just tried it with my (luckily non GameDev) PoserPro 2014 license key, got to a validation page and back to My Cart here at Rero. Even proceeding to checkout I am staying here at Rero ... so I would probably simply get Bondware's PoserPro 11.2 (or 3 nowadays).