LOL@ Nikita! Worry not, ma'am... as soon as enough people bug Kupa to port it to Linux, it may happen. There's already a Linux-based compositor now called Shake that works a lot like Poser. Only difference is, Shake costs a zillion bucks and is used in the high-end market; it's also more heavily geared towards animation than stills. And yeah, it has a protection scheme too, if the article in Linux Journal is any indication.

pdxjims is right - doesn't matter what OS they port it to, warez is warez, and proprietary stuff will always need some sort of protection scheme to keep the casual warez kittens at bay.

Incidentally, for those who are wondering, the one and only reason you don't see Linux warez all that much is because you can already go get the source code to damned near every Linux product out there and compile the thing yourself. The GNU General Public License is the absolute best anti-warezing tool I've ever seen.

FyreSpiryt: I read tyour whole post... and the point still remains - CL wants to protect their copyright, which is the "why" of it all... They know that it won't stop it all, but it will make things harder to warez out.

Case in point would be Adobe Illustrator... there has only been one warezed version I've seen, and the readme for it states that the only way you can make it work is to turn your CMOS clock back to 2001 or some noise.

Also, like I've said before, protection schemes are common in 3D software in the mid-to-high end. I'm suprised CL hasn't done this earlier.

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