If I remember correctly, it was only by "accident" that someone noticed the activation plans in the low-res version of the P5 manual. Unlike many of the fine posts by Kupa and others showing off the highlights of P5 to get the potential consumers drooling over what they can do, this received no regal fanfare and, apparently, was an attempt to slip under the radar of most users since a vast majority of users never even read a EULA agreement. In fact, I believe the legality of all EULAs has been questioned by lawmakers before, if not still on-going, due to the fact that most people never read them in the first place. Again, CL did try this before and with enough clamor from the consumers, it was dropped. Regardless if they added it back in or not, that does show some semblance of altering company policy based upon consumer feedback. So, if nothing else, there is a glimmer of hope - no matter how small or dim it may be - that they will once again recognize the error of their ways and do something proactive about it. Back into current reality: Since they did reintroduce the activation scheme after knowing that a good percentage of consumers opposed it in the past, that shows - to me at least - there is a sort of veneer-type face that they put on themselves in public to get the users to deify CL to the point where they can do no wrong, while in practice they could care less. Therefore, this should cause a little more concern than the average Poser user seems to be exhibiting. As for the other ethnical and international issues you mention, just because someone is overtly vocal about one form of "oppression" (ie, slowly losing personal digital rights) does not mean that they are not actively involved in other arenas as well. I have taken part in many activities for such causes and will continue to do so in the future. In relation to this thread, there is very little, if indeed any, relevance to its inclusion in the discussion. Hopefully, CL has had the opportunity to read through the discussions and will present their internal motivations so the rest of us do not have to continue to speculate off the minute information we have had to glean from several sources.