RIAA moves to software? lmfao. this is great, First the record company throws a fit because their artist aren't making money and now people are boycotting them due to their greed. And now the merchants are getting that way, or at least that's the way it seems to me. I can understand throwing a fit if someone doesn't pay for your product and only one person had purchased it or what have you, But as far as the "it's still pirating even if you have the original and he doesn't use it anymore" goes.. that seems like greed to me. We spend $20 on a package that we're only going to use for a short time and then put it aside untill something new comes out and then we buy more shit that we'll eventually toss aside like yesterday's trash. So if we stop using them after awhile... what are we doing? wasting our money.. especially if we remove the things from our HD just to preserve some sort of space and ship the disk to someone else... that in my eyes makes the merchants look greedy, and just like in the recording industry, people will end up boycotting, Which means that People like Fyrene and Ecstacy will not be getting paid for their amazing work. Not only that, but you can purchase something for someone else as gifts here... There's no difference between someone buying something for themselves and then not using it anymore and sending it to a friend after they get rid of it... What's the difference out side of someone test driving it first? I don't know about all of you, but i really don't see any difference. I would also like to say that i think fyrene was actually pretty level headed about the whole thing, which i think was a good move on Fyrene's part, however, just mentioning it or bringing it to light will and probibly has already started something that will keep going on and on. The war against piracy is a lost one, the more you protest against piracy, the more your going to drive your customers away. If you just kind of deal with it (granted, i know it's hard to do when your not making enough income to provide for yourself or what have you, especially if this is your only means of income) then more than likely, you will still get alot of customers... but their will always be piraters, and some money is better than none. Another thing is that someone giving you something as a gift is completely different then pirating. Pirating is giving the other person a duplicate of their file that they themselves did not pay for. A gift is where they send the product and delete it from their HD so it would still only be licensed by one person so to speak, and the only reason that i am bringing up both issues in the same post is because the gifts were misintrepreted as pirating. Now, i'm not for pirating myself but i feel that if someone gives someone else a file and deletes their file so that they don't have it as well or whatever (especially if they are no longer using it) and it's a gift, i feel that the recievers of that gift should not be punished for it. As far as me saying you're going to have to deal with piraters, i'm just trying to help out because i have been keeping up with the RIAA's actions and watching how their customers are responding, and alot of people are boycotting against buying any new cds or anything of that sort.. so because of the RIAA's actions, they're going to lose alot of customers or simply go out of buisness, Now I know you may not think that has anything to do with you, but what you may or may not fail to realize is that it's the same thing here. The more the merchants protest, the more the Customers and Piraters are going to protest because the merchants are coming off as greedy. Just trying to help you keep your head above water. Ketamine