Micheleh: It's obvious from the first post that you started the thread, but I was responding specifically to other comments. I also read the thread to which you linked. I didn't see any comment by Steve Cooper stating that it was your responsibility to help pay for piracy. On the other hand, it's clear from the thread that he did retract at least one comment from the thread. And I suppose it's possible he wrote this in an IM or a chat room. So I wasn't responding to what you wrote, although it currently appears that you wrote "you and your program and your company can go to hell" to Anthony Hernandez before Cooper's first post (though, again, perhaps there are retracted posts involved). Hernandez apparently did not respond in kind, so perhaps he can be spared Customer Relations 101;) From what remains of the original thread, it looks like Cooper was making the point that the consumer ultimately pays for piracy, just as every consumer pays for shoplifting. He also made the argument that the amnesty will benefit us. As I wrote earlier, I am skeptical, as there is a counter-argument that amnesties can encourage further lawbreaking. However, as I also wrote earlier, whether an amnesty is always wrong from a moral or ethical standpoint is debatable as a matter of competing schools of philosophy.