Thanks for that, I just added my opinion, which apparently a mod has to approve before it appears, and it was quite lengthy so it could take a while! I'll give you a quick precis though:

Crackers crack software because supposedly upright citizens pay them for it. If nobody bought warez then the crackers wouldn't have a market, and the software vendors could put all their efforts into improving their products. Unfortnuately thousands of people do use illegal software, and feel OK about it, whilst that situation continues the vendors have to do sometnimg to try and protect themselves.

Message edited on: 12/29/2005 20:52