anthony, with all due respect and sympathy (and i really mean it) for you and cl, you couldn't expect that people give themselves contend with what you've said. imho, if you would have said, "see, here are the figures, if we don't do this copy protection now, we loose xxxxx bucks to piracy." it would be simple and for everyone understandible. but you brought just some unappropriate metaphors so it's no wonder that people are pissed off. from my experience, and i made until today at least 100 authorizations, the internet-based codes exchange doesn't work in 15 %. either is server down, java & co. are disabled, firewalls let nothing through and similar. i, for myself would gladly register with my full name and adress (as i do often), if i don't have to authorize my software every time something changes (i know, i have three free beers :)).