[Phantast] The big issue is this - when someone makes a casual copy of software for a friend, in how many cases would the friend have gone out and bought it had he not had a "free" copy? SSS: I am personally sympathetic to this argument. Sharing is a worthy human act, and I hate to stand in the way of it. And as you point out, often it doesn't actually cause a lost sale. I cringe when I hear any company, regardless of industry, claim that piracy has cost them some insane number of dollars. The figures are utter bull. How many of those people weren't going to buy anyway? But here is where the rub is: those friends have other friends. Today's world is so well connected. Overall, that is good. But it has made it rather too easy to share, without regard for rewarding the creators of the goodies.