There is no way to 100% protect software. If its good enough, someone will crack it. Cr2 files are the easiest of all to hack (I modify one a day - for my own purposes only). However, for every cracker out there, and every cheat, there's 100 people who will buy the product legit. I don't worry that my stuff gets pirated. I sell enough of my real software (business - not Poser) to make up for it. The people with pirated stuff don't get support, or fixes, or updates. Life's really too short to worry about the pirates. You'd spend every day checking gallery postings for something you've done, and checking the user name against your database of legit users. And the people who do use pirated stuff probably wouldn't pay for it anyway. Even Micro$quish doesn't go after the small cheaters. And lets face it, Poser content is only going to be got by small cheaters.