I mean really... if we were talking about XP, where an entire computers' worth of data were held hostage, then I'd revolt. However, nothing is being held hostage here... nothing. Curious Labs will have my name and purchase info upon registration, and if I call 'em up asking for a re-activation, they know full well that trying to make life hard on me doing so would result in my coming here to complain about it, resulting in bad PR all around. CL certainly doesn't want that happening. Now, if the company goes under, then registration will be the least of your worries (not to mention that CL has already pledged to have an official 'crack' sitting and ready to distribute to all paying customers in case of emergency, so seriously - what's the whining all about?) will Poser 5 make me more money than its purchase price? I dunno... I do know that I have gotten enough enjoyment out of P4 and PPP that it was worth far more to me than I paid for it, by some rather large factors. I suspect that P5 will be the same. (AAMOF, the only other bits of software that has had a better ROI in terms of time spent enjoying it were Quake 1, 2 and 3.) I guess I'm just saying that there's more to this than money. /P