nu-be LOL I've been in that click fest a couple of times... You forgot to mention all the adbots and spybots that get installed :) But seriously...it is unfortunately a fact of life on the net, as mentioned tons of times....even if you sell on CD, folks copy it to the warez sites...same as movies, music, etc... I don't believe there is a real way to stop it right now...even legally..you might nab a handful of real bad cookies, but there is no way you could ever bang everyone that is using and abusing copyrighted material, unless there was a court and department set up to deal specifically with that. I suppose you could somehow have a spybot that gets attached to every download, (the FBI or some other watch group would have to hack it in), then nab the perpetrator by following his/her IP address...but the warez sites move so much I think even that would be impossible. Guess you just have to chalk it up as free advertising... and hopefully most folks are honest and pay for what they use. Perhaps if you could find/see some of your work being used, it could be written off as a loss on your taxes...knowing that a certain percentage of your product is being skimmed for free off the net....

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