This problem has been around since the beginning of computers, and it will never go away. Wordstar became an industry standard through warezing, did you know that? If someone wasn't going to buy the product anyway, and takes it from a friend to learn how to use, I don't know if that was really a lost sale or not. It might be a sale down the road, when that person has learned the software, turns around and buys it for their work. I can tell you, its BECAUSE of copy protection that I don't buy CD's like I used to. Half the time the damn things don't run on my hifi equipment, and the MP3's can be burned to a cd and played where the CDs won't. But these poor entertainment corporations that have been overpricing CD's since the beginning are complaining its the illegal trading. Its not the illegal trading. Its the high pricing for a product that won't run on my equipment that forces me to choose an illegal product over a legal one. Now, the behaviour I find truly despicable is when people take other people's artwork and redistribute or worse resell it as their own work. That's not right.