warez here is pretty much a dont ask dont tell situation here. As long as you dont go around on the forums asking people for it or giving it away or just being stupid about it, they tend to look the other way. Personally i am quite opposed to it, but what are they going to do about it?

Truth is not much. You can look at the fact that membership suddenly soared once p2p programs came out and that it seems everyone these days has thousands of dollars to throw around on modelling programs that they know next to nothing about.... a large reason of why i dont post freestuff or marketplace items here, and my gallery is empty, is because of reasons such as this. You can go into the chat rooms at any time and hear talk of warez or shareware programs not paid for, and look at the forums here, it sometimes takes hours if not days for a warez post to be locked, and while we know admins cant always be everywhere, moderators usually dont even notice till you shoot fireworks around it and then they can only lock a post and not delete it, so naturally the guy gets what he was after anyway.

Its a sad state of affairs, but rosity is not the only place like this, warez has turned into a large and very popular affair lately. its at a point where you have to wonder everytime someone asks a question. I do a lotof customer support and such during my off hours at work, and can identify several times where the simple solution to someones problem was that they were using illegal software. And then they get all upset when you tell them this even though its quite obvious.

Members here are very much the same .... if you even suggest they are using illegal software, they jump up and down in a huff and act like you hav mortally offended them, but where else do 16 year old boys who work at mcdonalds get copies of maya 4 unlimited from a friend and have 2 years experience at it but dont know how to apply a render node.

I'll prolly be flamed hardcore for saying this even, but Ive been sitting in the dark corners on this site for a long time just watching in dismay how the whole world is slowly turning into a gimme state.