lol, i get your point and can understand it very well. and i see you know what i think about it. it certainly won't stop me from buying p5 (which i already ordered) i just feel that this whole stuff is getting out of hands. as someone put it in another thread, first it's serial number, than it's authorization code, than xyz-protection that doesn't prevent product from being cracked and copied and then? render on demand with web-based code and authorization before each rendering? and this is what we're talking about: it all simply doesn't help! now if i had a choice, as you put it, i may be reconsidering buying p5. but i don't have a choice. poser is the only software that does what it does. cl has de facto monopoly on ready-made poseable human figures. same with windows. if i want to keep my multimedia bussiness running i have to have windows and macs. i have no choice. my hope was that smaller companies like cl would be nearer to their customers and listen to them more often then big ones like adobe or discreet. as i bought the upgrade from max 3 to 4, i had to go through the same process with auth. codes (though they want it you to do it only once, if you install it on a new machine it stays the same). i was supposed to do it via their homepage but it didn't work. their html code was faulty and it wouldn't accept my serial number. i tried to email them and after two days without answer i called them. one arrogant jerk on the other side was very unhelpfull and wouldn't understand that their internet authorization proccess isn't working and only after i gave him full data about myself and the vendor where i bought it, he was willing to send me the code. it was major pain in the ***! so i'm really not looking forward for another software that may put me in similar situation.