none of the scenarios are ethical, imo. although, the first one does make some sense. however, over the years i have worked for a couple of very large companies...the last one was a design firm on michigan avenue in chicago. in all truth...software got installed on other machines that it was not registered to. point in fact....we had 4 licenses for photoshop. we had it running on 27 computers. oh, and, lol...i don't have any mp3's either.