mega, In my opinion, any company that does not take serious heed of its customers desires will not be around long enough to matter much anyway. Therefore, if CL does value their customers, a compromise surely would be in order - given the amount of people who have taken the time to post their opposing thoughts and opinions about the activation scheme. Just because people follow the law, does not mean they like it or even approve it. Unfortunately, for most people, politics have grown to the point where you are "damned if you do, damned if you don't"; therefore many people give up feeling that they have a snowball's chance in Hell of ever changing anything. These are the sad "mindless sheep" that accept any and every law, regardless of how adversely it affects them or infringes upon their children or their childrens' children. The saying "You can't fight city hall" has become their mantra. It is far easier to sit back and do nothing than it is to place yourself in the spotlight and demand that things change. Due to years upon years of people blindly following without questioning authority, we are the sad recipients of our ancestors' failings. Granted, we have a voice and can change things, but everyone knows that humanity, as a whole, has an extreme adversity to any changes. Therefore, those who will and do take action, generally do so in a concerted and very well calculated manner. However, there is a lot more power to be wielded by a focused group of people as diverse and geographically dispersed as those who purchase CLs' products. Chances are, you would be hard pressed to scare up a handful of Poser users within your local geographical region. However, here on R'osity and other sites, the small user populations can unite and voice their opinions to a hopefully receptive company; as there is strength in numbers. Since we are so diverse and dispersed, they cannot tie the mentality to the usual demographics. It is more of a plea to CL and others to bring back the focus as customers being the top priority than it is about the activation scheme; although that is the current vehicle of many users' displeasure. Perhaps it is those that claim to see who are at fault, because they concentrate on the world as it is presented to them vs the world they could have if they only had the guts and stamina to stand up for what they believe in vs allowing others to tell them what will and will not be? Every little step you allow anyone to take that slightly diminshes your rights is one more step to a world in which you will have no rights whatsoever. Usually, whatever is lost is only gained back by an exponential amount of blood, sweat, and tears when compared to what it takes to lose it. I would venture a guess that most people here have grown up in an era where software licensing - in some form or another - was the norm. However, some of us remember the good old days when once you purchased something, you had every legal right to do with it as you pleased. What some of us are doing is finally standing on our own two feet and stating firmly that this is enough. Others have transgressed far enough into our personal space and freedoms and we will no longer take whatever they say as gospel lying down. It takes someone with a spine and strong vocal cords to change anything. If you sit back and say nothing, nothing will ever change; except that little by little, the life you enjoy now will be taken piece by piece from under your feet until you really open your eyes to see the truth. Some of us have lived long enough to see this happen and we are trying to forewarn those with less life experience. Others will need to experience it on their own, hopefully before they wake up one day and realize that they have no power whatsoever to change anything because they laid complacent for so long.