Whenever I talk to the guys at work about cracking stuff they claim it all runs better. Games. 3D software. 2D software. OS's. It would really be a shame if you had to crack your own software that youve put up money for just to make it run better. I have Lightwave. I belive that it would start up faster if it didnt have to go through the dongle to hookup but that is only a slight delay and seems to be the only small prob with having a security system like that. As for testing. I think they limited testing to keep cracked poser5 software off the filesharing markets. Lightwave did extensive testing and there where tons of cracks for LW7.0 and 7.5 even before it got to consumers computers. In fact I saw 7.5 3 days before it was released and I payed for LW and I was like "What the frick???.