Quote: "Actually as a serious question, they must use some way to track the media but who would go as far to check?"
As far as I know, when you save a file with 3ds max, it changes a few of the vertex positions by a very, very, small amount and it can be loaded into an app by autodesk to see if if fits some sort of mathematical criteria.
Quote: "I don't get it,whats the point in new releases if even Max 7 does the job. I have 2008 version,has great plugin support and I will stick to it."
Like Quik said, it has more functions, and is probably more stable and less likely to crash. I know Oolite pointed out a couple cool functions in the later versions in the 3ds Max Help thread. I've got a stand alone license for 3dsmax 8, and for it just being a hobby for me, I don't tend to upgrade any time soon. If I do at some point, however, my wife is a teacher and I might see what we can do with that.
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