I agree with Phantast. Every "minor inconvenience" eventually adds up into a major intrusion. CL has an opprotunity with every new release to play leader instead of follower to trends, as does any software company. Instead of being a leader and saying they're not going to insult their legetimate customers or subject them to additional hoops to jump through, looks like ya'll are doing the "We're just following MicroSoft's lead like everyone else, and everyone else is doing it so live with it" bit. A software purchaser pays good money for the useage of the software package - in the case of graphics software, anywheres from $300+ to 3 or 4 thousand dollars plus - and recieves a CD, and a serial number unique to them. At those kind of prices, insert CD, input serial number, run program is a reasonable expectation for the purchaser. Not "install program, insert serial #, login on web, get authorization code, input code, email company repeatedly when code fails.... [As I've seen happen on numerous ocassions]". Do I think that a software company has the right to protect themselves from piracy? Of course. Do I also think that software piracy is a cost of doing business in these days and times for a software company? You bet I do. Do I think that legetimate purchasers need to accept being subjected to additional hoops and proceedures to protect your software from piracy, over and above the money they're already paying for the right to unpack it from the box and install it? Let me think about that one. Ummm... Nope. It's your cost of doing business, not theirs. Live with it. And find a way to deal with piracy that doesn't punish your customers.... and that doesn't automaticlly assume that your customers are theives, which is what you're telling them with "authorization schemes". Following MicroSoft's lead is for sheep.

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