I understand the arguments against the security measures, however, I have received emails "out of the blue" from warez sites and most every other software company with significant investments in high quality software are moving toward the security or monitoring of the installs. There has to be an industry balance between the obvious cost of the software and the number of computers that can "house" the programs. I have had several upgrades and hard drive changes which require me to spend hours reloading the software. it becomes another step to get new permissions to install on my computers; I rearrange the software over two computers because I want to keep my software uses together....graphics as opposed to my general use; what with viruses and warez the honest computer user is put into a defensive mode over the extra work they have to do just to enjoy the investment they make in software, or at least that is how I feel. the software industry has listened to the consumers and I think that CL is not being intrusive at all. In fact I think that with an identifiable customer base it is clearly more manageable than say windows....I mean in terms of monitoring extra installs. I think we as consumers are making as much of an investment in the software as the software company is making in us so we need each other to understand the limits to our financial investments. I for one would rather put up with any hassle with contact with CL to have great value for my investment. I would like them to understand that I just cannot aford to buy x copies just so I can use the program on different machines; they have listened to that aspect it seems. What I am reading is that I can install on several machines for convenience. I read that they will be offering Multi-user licenses which I think is excellent so a company can afford to have several people working on projects with the program. I think those who are not going to "buy in" on the security are going to miss many great features....I believe that CL has been more than kind to its customers and I am willing to extend them the courtesy of interacting with their attempts to monitor installs. Bring on Poser 5!!!! I love Poser and am ready for the new features!!!