randym77 posted at 12:16 PM Tue, 28 June 2022 - #4440485

Poser 11 has always done this, but you used to be able to get it turned off if you contacted SmithMicro.

That is no longer the case. I believe the limit is 9 days. If Poser can't make contact with the mothership for 9 days, it stops working. Bondware might be able to give you a longer grace period, but you can no longer disable this "feature."

I hate it. But I think it's here to stay. Not because it's effective against piracy, but because they want Poser connected to the Internet to make shopping at Renderosity easier. E-On did that with Vue. It didn't end well. And now they're subscription only. :-P

Not really effective against Piracy as if they would want to pirate it it would be Pirated for sure, but I guess there is no interest to Pirate poser any further ! It is rather very effective to loose honest poser users not expanding it any further , dropping it and jump to other 3d applications. This system is actually a real farce and damaging the whole Poser County, rather to to any good. I would not even upgrade if it were for free as long as there is a random activation system. The damage has already been done after the Forced shut down of the Smith micro version 11.1 removing the offline activation by renderosity as well the permanent versions. Users do not like such aggressive marketing methods turning there back on such in silence. You only get trust if you are able giving trust !