Incidentally, I have yet to recieve my copy of P5 (us academic slobs gotta wait 'til Oct.), but the activation scheme doesn't really bother me... They don't suck out personal info from the drive, they don't attach spyware to it, and they don't have some devious plan for world domination. If Curious Labs does go out of business, there are enough folks using P5 that a business would be stupid not to snap it up; if that doesn't happen, then the code is officially dead and a crack likely would be warranted at that time, if CL hasn't already made a patch to crack it already on its way out. Otherwise, I'm not too awful worried about it. /P