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In the interests of not polluting the attached thread, which includes comments by Larry Weinberg of Curious Labs, I am starting a new thread. It repeats part of my post 144 on that thread. ... #2* A stringent and trouble-prone registration system. As a software developer, I thank you: better that you take the arrows in your back than I ;-) I would use such a scheme if I dared. When people talk about warez, and how there is probably already a crack out - irrelevant. The real issue is the basic human instinct that makes it easy to rationalize not paying for something unless you have to. The person who might otherwise make a copy or two for friends, who then might give away copies ... sometimes snowballs to many copies in use per legit copy - that's who this discourages, not the hard-core pirates. To users - by all means bitch and moan about the imperfections in schemes like this, but some scheme or another is going to prevail. Complain until all your issues have been successfully addressed. I'm betting on one of the universal hardware key solutions, like the one that I believe is offered by Poser5's security vendor. Maybe what is needed is a central company to hold keys, that could provide a "back-up source of registration updates" so that there wouldn't be total dependence on the original software vendor. -- ToolmakerSteve