I have a vacation home here in Germany. In an area where there was a violent storm with enormous flooding the other day. My apartment is thankfully well away from the directly affected area. Nevertheless, we have almost no Internet here at the moment. And not reliable at all. For weeks now. The telephone company is doing its best, but that doesn't really help the people affected when they are dependent on Internet access.

Here in Germany, a permanent Internet outage is actually very rare. At any rate, I can't remember it ever happening in this way before.

Actually, I had almost decided to buy Poser 12 after all and run it on its own machine (despite security concerns regarding the network). The flooding and the Internet situation that went along with it set my decision back to zero.

I don't let a software I paid good money for tell me when I can use it.

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