To those of you who say this scheme will stop "casual" piracy, you are right. It will probably stop some. But it's gotten much easier lately for the "casual" computer user to acquire warezed software than it used to be. And it keeps getting easier. And not all warez is ripped. Any deterance by this might well be offset by the people who would have bought it, but will now seek alternative methods to get it. To those who say it's no big deal: okay, so maybe it isn't. But look at it this way...to quote a CL employee, "Curious has utilized a third party that has a staff of scientists that stay on top of these issues and have tools that have a long running history of doing their job." I wonder how much that cost? I wonder if the money would have been better spent on network rendering? Or multi-processor support? Or better magnets? Or improved animation tools? The list could go on an on. What would you rather have? One of these features/improvements? Or a whiz-bang copy protection scheme (that won't work)?