here's a question. my brother, who is a student at college- poor student thought :o)- go's to the student store to buy me a xmas/b-day gift. since i own an original, legit copy of program "X", he buys me the new version of program "X". since i like mine so much. Since he bought it with his id, his discount, and gave it to me for xmas/b-day, is this ethical? or should i tell him to take it back and hurt his feelings? Cause if it is unethical, then i should return a few program he has gotten me, since i didn't buy them. Just about 95% of everything done in this world today is unethical by some standards. Weather its right or wrong. Oh, by the way, if your using windows, then your using a stolen program.