thanks, jack ;o) i hope it wasn't the nonsense in the last sentence that made you clean your monitor. it should read "after 30 days you'll have to write me a letter, where you send me your new adress (different then last one - ok, maybe i'll allow three times the same adress ;)), and i shall send you my new phone number - the old one is obsolete - to ask me about your money." if someone turns these protection around like this, one sees the absurdness of that all. why, i also want to protect my money! ;o) i'd really like to know if there are some seriuos researches somewhere about this problem, if this "protection" really protects software companies from warez theft and how much.