Actually, it sounds like a pretty sound decision for CL to me. There are a lot of users who "got into poser thru the back door". Maybe started playing with a copy Cousin so-and-so brought over & installed on a weekend visit & "forgot" to de-install after. Or "had this friend who"... etc, etc, etc. Probably hundreds, even thousands who picked up a copy of Computer Arts for the free Poser 3, & then weren't eligable for the Upgrade offer in the Magazine due to location, or got the back issue after it expired. There may even be well-known members of our community here who started on a more casual note. Not all of these folk would go the same route again if they knew then what they know now. By making this offer, CL stands to gain in several ways. They get the money for the upgrades from folk who want to do it right. They increase their registered customer base, which means that many more potential upgrade customers when they unveil Poser 5, and they'll (one would hope) score some goodwill points with the folk who benefit from the amnesty. Don't forget, without something like this, a lot of folk would only have 2 paths to get P5, either full price, or more revenue lost when they seek out warez copies after it's release. Don't get me wrong, I've actually bought Poser 6 times; once each direct order from the firm for each version from 1 thru 4. Then a "spare" copy that came with a 3D suite Metacreations packaged with 3 or 4 3D products a couple-3 years ago. and another I bought as a present for a talented friend who I was (justifiably, as it turns out) certain would do wonderful & creative things with it, & couldn't get it in the part of the world he was in. The only benefit for me in this offer is the same benefit all of us will get. This means more revenue for CL, which means a better foundation for the company, with means more & better wonderful things coming our way from CL. As a longtime member of a software professionals association ('though I haven't really had the time to code an app. in 8 years). I'm adamantly against warez & all illegal software. But I have to bear in mind that as the owner of Poser, CL has the right to try & convert the illegal users to legitimate ones by any means they choose. And all things considered, I like this method better than other methods I've seen, like Forced-registration-or-it-stops-working, or registering to get a software key to enable functions, or hardware dongles, or (insert your own most despised software protection method here). Anyway, I read this as a strong clue that P5 may be forthcoming pretty soon. Something to consider.