"he's saying you're gonna get squashed doing warez unless you're really good."

That's not a moral tale, it is a cautionary tale.

He is not saying "It is wrong to steal."

In the context of this piece, framing this as anything less than "It is completely wrong to steal software and I am only doing it to discover the power of the trojans and their antidotes" is the very minimum, and I still consider that wrong. Absent NO comment that it is morally wrong to steal software, he is proactively encouraging it.

Also I think there is other denial going on believing his only warez was for this article and only for the purpose of this article.

What I picked up is that he was a full-on warez guy who experienced the thrill of having a $7000 package of Maya on his HD, plus other software, but now "doesn't do that anymore" because people have come to know me, meaning they let him have copies so he'll talk about them or use them, etc.

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