Cyberstretch, those long lines at the airport are caused by that exact strategy, search everybody, whether they look like Osama Bin Laden or your grandmother. People put up with it because they value their lives over inconvenience. It comes down to whether you value Poser 5 over the (much less intrusive) activation code. MaxxArcher, CD's are mass produced in pressing plants, they can't burn your CC# to the CD as a password. Like my idea, it wouldn't work for packages bought at the store either. This might become practical when everyone has a gigabit connection and downloads all their software, which won't happen for some time.

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