Sorry Mac. I'm sure your experience has led you to your methods. I mean no disrespect when I say that the same process is at work in police departments. Pretty soon, everyone who looks , talks, dresses or acts a certain way is automatically a bad guy. It's lazy and it breeds hostility among the very people they're supposed to be serving. If you really want to educate someone about piracy, it strikes me that calling them out is perhaps not the best first step, but YMMV.

I think a better example is PhilC. On several occasions, I've seen him deal with people here who he pretty much knew had ripped off his software by the questions they were asking. He is always the perfect gentleman (not saying you arent :-) He makes it obvious what is going on with openly being accusatory. The guy could probably slit your throat and you'ld never even know you were bleeding. But that's his way.

NB. I can only wish I were the age you might judge by my occasional use of dude, fanboi, pr0n and yes, I have to admit even sk8r once or twice. :-)

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