Billygoat... Your reasoning is somewhat sound... but you forget "free usage". Under the free usage clause of the copyright law, we are allowed to tape music from the radio, tape TV programs or movies from cable or satellite. Is it so far fetched then to understand how new computer users can believe that downloading music, etc is ok? They are used to taping shows, taping music which comes to them. When they bring up Kazaa or one of the other P2P softwares, they see a list of music or whatever... to them... it has "come to them" just like music on the radio or movies on TV... so to them, in their ignorance, it is the same thing. The fact that we are posting on this board shows that most of us have more than a passing familiarity with computers. Having worked in retail for many years I can tell you... many people have NO CLUE. They don't know an illegal program from shareware. A 40 GB harddrive from a printer cable. I would prefer it if the admins would post comment at the end of the thread before locking it, explaining why it's being locked and suggest a proper course of action. For instance.... "We are locking this thread because downloading software from kazaa is illegal. We understand you tried to do the right thing by purchasing the software, but if you are having problems with the retail version, your best bet is to contact the vendor directly. The site for curious labs is www.curiouslabs.com." I think throwing in all of the flames and then abruptly locking the message sends a message to new users that we are a bunch of elitist snobs. I know this isn't my site, and I know the moderators have a job to do, but I for one would rather try to help people to understand what they did was wrong and give them the oppurtunity to change, rather than making them feel unwelcome and continue in their course of action. Anyway... that's my 2 cents worth... which with the value of the US dollar... isn't even worth that anymore...