I find call home, activation required etc copy protections despicable, even though I am a proffessional programmer. The bottom line is that once a program starts sending info back home, you have no guarantee about what it will send. Regarding activation, it is my own business if I install or not and I don't think anyone has the right to snoop into that. Another thing is that any copy protection can be easily hacked, leaving the only ones bothered by it the legitimate users. I have a laptop running XP, and even though I have a licence, I run a hacked version just to get around the annoying activation (and reactivation everytime I docked it...). It is a good example of backfiring copy protections. Another thing that annoys me whas when I bought Poser 3 full price, and when Poser 4 whas release less than a month later I had to pay full price for that also! No upgrade protection at all. There is a lot of software out there with lifetime registration. I don't say that you have to go that far, but I still think that it is better business to get more customers instead of bleeding a smaller number dry. For me it is a matter of principle, I do not want any program sending any info about my system. I will probably run a hacked version of poser 5 (which will appear within a week after the release), even if I buy it. Given their crappy upgrade policy, I might just let the magic of the internet provide for me this time. /troberg