I bought the Reiss Body Studio plugin for 3D Studio Max this morning... it looks great, but man, these pain-in-the@# authorization schemes... sigh.

First I tried the internet option, but the registration process just hung on "waiting for response from server." Then I tried the "manual registration" option, and never received tne needed .ilf file in my email. Now I've emailed Reiss Studio and I have to just sit back and wait for an answer (this being the weekend, I'm not too hopeful I'll hear anything before Monday.)

To be fair, this only happened about an hour ago, so it's not like Reiss is being slow in responding. It's just annoying when you've bought something cool and new and you're dying to try it out, and then suddenly you find out that you just spent nearly $200 US on something you can't use yet. :( I really, really hate these labyrinthine software-protection schemes, but I know why businesses need to use them. Because of @$)(@U$@ warez kiddies.

And people wonder why some R'osity regulars are so hard on people who post warez requests here -- it's because this kind of frustration is all thanks to the warezers. fumes