I am sorry to repeat, but some questions remain unanswered:- (1) The "3 downloads allowed and then you must phone" rule (likely imitated from baseball) :: I was told that when you phone, all that happens is that your copy of Poser's serial number is checked against a list of serial numbers of warez copies. If that is all, why make people phone? Can't that sort of simple checking against a list of numbers be done much quicker and easier and more reliably automatically by CL's computer that handles this copy protection? (2) What is all this about checking for configuration changes? When does the system block the load attempt for configuration change, and when not? What happens in these two cases of apparent configuration change? - He installs on his laptop and on his desktop, and has sole use of both, so he is the only user, as the licence says. - My laptop's drive lettets vary according to whether or not my external zipdrive was plugged in to the parallel port at boot-up. That is not fantasy :: it actually happens to me. What happens when I load with the zipdrive, and then try to run Poser without the zipdrive, or vice verse? - He has to replace his hard disk, or buys a new computer and scraps the old computer, or whatever. (3) If, as likely, the configuration check includes sending information to CL without the user's knowledge, please check UK law about privacy and the UK "Data Protection Act". It was said that delaying by a few weeks the coming of the first cracked version will mean more sales. Will the copy protection be removed from a particular program after the spread of cracked versions of it has made that copy protection no longer profitable for CL?