It should be simple to serialize each CD and have an online activation process that would only work one time with each CD that could not be duplicated for copies. Other software manufactures are using this process so it must work at least for us honest folks. If someone really wants to steal something bad enough I am sure they could get around it but those folks usually end up in jail eventually. Maybe the experts could write a program that would destroy the CD and burner if someone tried to copy it. Maybe they could melt the culprits computer.