Quote - Hackers will be upset that it's a little bit harder to get and distriute pirated software? Cry me a river... I'm having a hard time working up any sympathy. It's like a junkie being upset that his pusher got caught and sent to prison.

On the bright side, maybe we'll get people coming in here to say: "I can't download a pirated copy of Poser any more, and I really want the new version. How can I, what do you call it, BUY the program?"

 

No True hacker would use MegaUpload to pirate software since it's a site that hosts the actual upload with IP records from whence they came. Any Hacker worth his salt uses peer to peer bounced through many proxies with IP blocking.

 

Quote - Then there was the Pixologic incident. I lost my copy of Zbrush's registry file in a computer crash. Call them up, and was, to make a long story short, told I was either too stupid to follow instructions, or trying to rip them off. At least that was just a few hundred dollars down the toilet, and it was my fault for storing whatever it was on the dead computer.

In Pixlogic's defense, NO OTHER COMPANY, that I know of, has offered free upgrades from a 1.?? version through a 4.?? version to anyone with a valid serial code to that first purchase. Talk about more bang for your bank!