[Daishichimaru]

You can pick up another educational lisence for a mere $500. That doesn't cover future upgrades, I might add. Ain't technology great?

The problem with a Port-o-lisence is that your head animator guru(ess?) will have to abandon her working copy as long as it's transfered to you. Heck, if worse comes to worse you might even be able to constantly un/reinstall MAX and use that one month leeway period before you need verification. Not sure how legal that is, though.

On second thought, you can pull GMAX and learn on that- from what I hear it's essentially a duplicate of all core parts of MAX.