Ethics in this community is a funny thing sometimes. I'm sure you'll be told how terrible it is in all of the scenarios your suggest, even as the respondees haul out their Poser-derived models of Harleys and textures for Wonder Woman. We seem to run a bit of a double standard around here sometimes -- for some reason that no one's ever explained to me, it's okay to steal copyrighted or trademarked material if you're giving the results away... but it's not okay to hack the program... or it's not okay to download DAZ's stuff from Kazaa. From an ethics POV, entire sites like Animotions are suspect (and I say that having downloaded quite a bit from it myself); there are several Freestuff items across the web that could technically be seen as stolen intellectual property -- and yet when this is pointed out, the response is something along the lines of "Well, DC doesn't care as long as you don't sell the items." Does that make it better? Apparently, although I've never quite understood the subtlety of distinction that exists between these two scenarios; I just chalk it up to the community having a dirty little secret.