You have the "It's mine and I'll do what I want." crowd vs. the "I'll carry my bleeding child an extra block to the ER because jaywalking is against the law." crowd. The vast majority of people fit somewhere in between. In this scenario, most people who want to use the software are going to avail themselves of a readily available means of doing that if no other alternative exists. Some may feel varying degrees of guilt over using the cracker, but in the end, they use it. To me, this is common sense over ethics taken to a nonsensical extreme. The company got their money. The customers got to use the product the paid for in good faith. Obviously, other people feel differently. In this specific case, I don't see (what I think most people would do) as being unethical or somehow corrosive to the moral basis of society. On the contrary, I'm not sure I'd want to live in a world where most people would simply stop using Poser. Perhaps that's an outlaw attitude, but I'm more concerned about a society in which people slavishly adhere to an ideal, however noble in concept, without questioning it's real harm or good. BTW, the current popular ethical quiz seems to be, "Would Jesus drive an SUV?"

"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." - H. L. Mencken