There should surely be a difference in approach between a request for a serial number/warez download and someone who has paid, or tried to pay, for a legitimate copy? By all means suppress messages that offer ways of cicumventing a problem without paying, but in this case I'd pointed Paige to CL if she bought from there and suggested she tried getting her money back (and then buy from CL, obviously) if it was a dodgy third party site (though it now appears by the amount that her copy may have been legit after all). Fifteen years ago I accepted ST software from someone at work, and even used some of it for a few weeks: I rather doubt whether many have a completely clear record (fonts and clipart from expired demos all deleted folks?). We should be promoting reform, not irrevocably damning the tainted, and to do that we need to judge each case on its merits: I think locking was an overrection to Paige had posted to that point.