i phoned alias germany, they told me, they would not care wether i buy it here or in the us. i would get german support and so on even so i got an "american version" ... next step, i need a distributor in the us, a friend going there and NOT registering the softwar (if thats possible) but just buy it, than sent it to me and i register here. @black marketing: worst what can happen is, that you need to pay the VAT ...