As far as I'm concerned there is not real reason to bother with program protection built into the program or onto the CD. I go by the motto "If it can be made, it can be hacked." I have lots of products on CD (including MS stuff). First thing i do with them is make a back up of the CD so that the original doesn't get scratched. I have never had any problems using a backed up CD, EVER and I have a 5 or 6 year old 4x8 burner that is also my reader. The first chance I get I go out and download no-cd cracks so that it takes the strain off of my CD burner seeing as how that is also my only reader. I also build programs and I thought about making them secure, but then I thought, why bother. If someone wants it bad enough it will be cracked so why waste my time trying to protect it. I seen a report the other day that said had a supposed "warez user" talking about why people use warez software. He said because of the price. All I had to say is BULLSH*T!!! If you go out and look for the cheapest programs out there, ones that only cost 3 to 5 bucks each you will find cracks for them. Hell there are even some programs out there that the person only wants a postcard to register it. People will crack a program because it's there. That is the simple truth. If a program will not allow me to use a piece of my hardware or software due to security reasons, that program will get junked. So far I haven't had any problems.