Oooh Oooh. I got one! Try this non-hypothetical situation on for size. You purchase software you love to use from a small struggleing company. The software is heavily warezd and the company asks it's users to spot and help shut down the people warezing so they can stay afloat. The concerned community rallies to their cause and helps bust the warez groups. Months later the company announces that they want to release their next upgrade version with a security scheme. The user community balks and the company relents, but asks for users to stay vigilant in fighting warez. You still with me? Good. Then a few months later the company starts a special amnesty registration deal. If you have a 'questionable' ie Warez, version of their product you can register it legitimately at half the price a normal user payed when they purchased their legitimate copies. In effect selling the software to thieves at half the price. Question 1) was it ethical for the company to offer this amnesty to the thieves who had been 'hurting' the company so much in the past? Question 2) was it ethical for the company to put a security scheme into place on their next full version release that causes major problems for some of their legitimate customers after 'pardoning' the above warezers? Question 3) If you found someone warezing the latest version should you report it to said company after they have proven they don't mind coddeling thieves? Enquiring minds wanna know....