Well...MAYBE WE CAN ALL RELAX.... I just had a hard drive crash...am using WIN XP HOME... Installed a new hard drive....formatted and installed XP... It has to be activated...thought to myself, here goes trouble...hit the send button...it went right through, no problems...I didn't have to call anybody. So if the Poser 5 security is similar, depending on what portion of the hardware the security is keying on, it all may be a moot issue. It is a fact security measures do not work...there are cracked copies of Microsoft products, and every other product imaginable. Again, the only people annoyed and having to deal with the security measures are the honest people. The others just keep hacking away until they get what they want. Same as your house/property. Believe me, even if you have 10 locks, bars, whatever on your house, if someone wants in badly enough, and if your security is that tight it just invites entry, someone will get in. The new issue, however, is that software companies ARE NOT DOING THIS TO STOP PIRACY PER SAY....they are doing it to stop consumers, and mainly home consumer/hobbyists, from installing the software on more than one system. How many of you use an operating system such as win 98 on all machines in your house....installing it from a CD that came with perhaps the first system you bought...I"m sure nearly everyone. OR from the one copy of Win98 SE that you bought....the new MS scheme stops that type of useage...it doesn't stop piracy such as hacking, cracking etc.... Even this CL security is the same...laptop and desktop of same user..sure, but what about the system my kid uses networked to mine down the hall...can I slap it on there for him to use? Its still MY system....I wouldn't mind paying perhaps a small licensing fee to be able to use a product on all my systems, but I refuse to buy 5 copies of a program to install it on all my computers.

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together.
All things connect......Chief Seattle, 1854