PJF is right, the middle and high end package are aimed at people who will earn money using them. Buying a $3000 problem package isn't a problem if you know that you'll realize a project with it that'll bring you an income of $6000 already the first month. That's an investment, that's all. Surely Discreet, Softimage or Alias are not worried by the home user piracy, the only important thing for them is that the professional users pay for the product because their sale previsions are based on this public. If they really wanted to earn money with the home user, they could easily sell a second version of their product at a very low price but with a special license with restriction in use (Microsoft made it with a complete version of Visual C++ sold at a very low price, the only limit was that you hadn't the right to distribute a soft made with it). If one day they do that, THEN, you'll really start to harm them as a private user when using a warezed Max or Maya, till then... For Poser, it's also true that the situation is very different, with a $200 price, it's clear that the product is as much for the home user and for the professional user and piracy do harm them to a certain extent, but it also bring them customers, I for exemple discoverd Poser by a friend who had a warezed copy (I used, a warezed copy during 2 monthes before to buy it - By the way, before you call me a NAZI have a look at my real name) and anyway, there's a lot of people who download softs that would never buy them if they hadn't them for free For now I really think the most important is to explain to the people we know that REALLY use warez they REALLY could afford they're doing something with more consequence than they believe, open their eyes, that's all. And above all, keep the things at their real place (After World War II my family was 23 times smaller than in 1936, that was what the NAZI did, not to compare with some piracy...) Aaron Perlmann

Hello, I think this time you might be wrong (at least this problem wouldn't occur only with warezed Max or PPP). My girlfriend had the same problem with Max. She has perfectly legal Max, Poser and PPP (all American version, she's American). We leave in France (I'm French, nobody is perfect ;) ) and we use the French configuration for our keyboard and that was the problem. In France the decimal delimiter is a comma (thanks a lot Abraham I pulled my hair out on that for a while) and if the delimiter in the regional preference isn't a point, Max transform EVERYTHING after the decimal delimiter in zero (If you have access to a copy of Max just try this : write 0,12345 and press ENTER, with your American setting the comma will not be accepted and you'll only get 0) and as the decimal delimiter in the PZ3 is a point all value beginning by 0. are zeroed out :( ) If you replace the comma with a point in the regional setting then everything work again. Well, as you work in Curious Lab If you can try to discut this with the engineer : before to ship non English copy of PPP, they will maybe have to write a routine to check what delimiter is in use on the computer and parse the PZ3 to replace all point with the symbol in use in the country (I think the comma is quiet widely used : France, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Spain...) otherwise you'll get a lot of mail talking about a bug (it's not really one but...) Hope this piece of info will help you people at Curious Lab. Thanks a lot for our favorite soft :)

I really think I will try to spare some money to buy it :) Marque, Irland was made by Tuula Taparsela alias "TT" :)