"I've seen numerous threads where people have admitted that they're at work while responding to threads and perusing Renderosity. I work for a government office (county mental health authority), so I wouldn't dare try that, but I see a lot of folks here who do that and don't seem to worry that they're stealing time from their company."

Some of us own the company. :)

But yeah, I agree. Blasting the poor new guy/girl was pretty tacky. Everyone deserves the chance to learn about copyright/warez/etc. We give merchants a second chance, we should extend that to members who may not realize.

About the price, I bought my very legit P4 from a retailer between Metacreations and Curious Labs for a decent discount and if someone wants to yank my chain about that, bring it on. No doubt the retailer expected to get stuck with abandonware and CL probably hadn't been mentioned. At the time, I had no idea what was going on. (probably a good thing as I doubt I would have bought it)

And yeah, that "I'm in!" thing is getting really old.

...... Kendra