1.Curious Labs lost a lot of sales from Pro Pack due to warez versions being available. 2.It took almost 3 years for Poser 5 to arrive. It bootleg copies weren't so prevalent it probably would have arrived with all its cool features last year. 3. While its difficult to estimate how many warez/bootleg versions of Poser 4 and ProPack are out there lets take a hypothetical guess and say its 10%. That means that if you paid $329.00 for P5 then $32.90 is what warez cost you. 4. While P5 has some phenomenal new features, ask yourself how many others didn't make it into the final product because of lack of time and finances because so much of their product was given away for free in the past. No doubt there were a lot of hot features for P5 that never got past the drawing board because of these constraints. 5. When you register your P5 and ensuring that the creators of it get their due look at it as a down payment that you're making on Poser "6" and that when Poser 6 does arrive you will be paying a lot less for it than if CL didn't have these new security/registration procedures. I can guarantee you that when it does arrive Poser 6 will have a lot more features and will arrive much sooner than it would have if CL did not have the security measures they have in place for P5.