Even if Curious Labs goes under (which I hope they don't), I think the Poser program is strong enough that someone else would buy the rights to it, and continue the support/ un-lock issues. It survived the transition from MetaCreations. I've bought every version since Poser 1, and I don't feel the activation made me suffer any. CL isn't Adobe or Corel with multiple strong programs to fall back on. This is thier main baby, and if they don't protect it, then they WON'T be around for a Poser 6. It's not a perfect solution, but it's something that has to be done, and you're probably going to be seeing a lot more instances of un-lock codes from other software developers. Like Wdupre said, if you don't like protection scheme, don't buy it. If you forsee having to re-install Poser 5 100 times, as previously mentioned, then you might want to stick to P4.