Melanie, Your "sticking to your principles" does not offend me AT ALL. You (obviously) may do as you please. You first said: "CL doesn't trust their customers and I find that insulting..." and neither do department stores. If they did, there would be NO security system at all. And, you said: "At least MetaCreations trusted their customers." Yes, and where is MetaCreations now? They, as was stated in an earlier post, abandoned their customers. Pretty nice huh? And trusting their customers? CL did that as well. We don't know what would have happened had MC kept Poser, but I'd bet they would have went with a similar process - but as I said, we'll never know. Let me ask you this... what happens if stores start having you "sign in" at the front before you purchase anything? You won't shop there? What if ALL stores went this way? You would HAVE to adapt. It may be that all software companies will do the same as MS, CL and scores of others have already done. Then we ALL will have no choice but to adapt. I was commenting (okay, criticizing if you wish) on what I saw as taking a side but not really seeing it. In the end, it doesn't really matter anyway. We (and everyone else) will do what we want to do. So... still... take care and BEST of luck to you!