"this is a gross exageration.....based on the assumption that all these people who use pirated software would have otherwise purchased it.....that's simply not true....alot of people collect pirated software just to have it and never even use it...they certainly would have never spent hundreds of dollars to buy it..." nyar1ath0tep said this a few months ago. It still tickles me: "For warez traders, the whole purpose of life is downloading and burning CDs full of files that they never use, and one way they gain status is by posting files using "bleeding edge" technology - much in the same way a chimp would gain status in its society if somebody gave it an empty gasoline can to bang around."