It is a little wrong thinking, It just punishing the loyal members and main purpose is to control the financial aspect with these activation methods. There is no security activation that could not be hacked, even Microsoft win gets unlocked and other big industries with allot more capabilities. so the purpose is sure not prevention, it is just a excuse.

Poser 12 and 13 were out without any call home the same day of release so where is the prevention ? Customers will buy it any way if they want it, same thing with assets ! But the way it is constipated atm with that weekly call home is rather causing damage then any good, one activation would be enough but not dependent on a connection. So witch version will the customers prefer ?  SM ended up offering Permanent activations, why ? Renderosity made it even worse with a weekly call home , if you are online then every day the license gets replaced on your system. But if you have a good firewall well then it might not get through. 

Have you ever asked your self why Poser as rare exception is causing the firewall asking for a setting on first boot ?  Think of it ! and ask your self how many of your other programs cause the firewall to boot on the first run to set it up !?