The only real deterrent to warez is to target the people distributing it and using it Ditto. If police can track paedophilia WWW sites to their physical locations and send men in and seize their servers, as in some cases that have been on UK TV news, they can do the same with warez sites. hackerz, crackerz and warez sites are not the only means by which software is being illegally distributed ... [casual copying] ... I know, but "three sides of a polder is no use, however well built, the sea still gets in where the fourth side should be". If you stop the casual copying, fine for a few weeks, until the hacked version that doesn't need the code number gets around and all over the place on the internet, as STORM said. One example of a complicated wide-organized plan to stop illegal music copying was the system of different incompatible versions of music tapes and CD's, so that the music companies could release music at different times in different countries without backstreet copyists and smugglers spoiling it :: fin e for a while, when someone wrote a Windows program that can translate this sort ofmusic between different nation codes, and it soon got everywhere on the internet, and that was the end of that.