Been a while since i visited these boards, but I thought I would throw in my 2 cents about piracy, so here it is:

Keep in mind, that here I am refering to an individual purchasing software, not a company.
In general piracy is wrong. People put lots of hard work into software and they deserve to be paid for it. However, I believe there a re a few instances in which piracy is ok. For example, if you are considering purchasing an expensive piece of software that has no trial version, or the trial version is crap and doesnt let you do anything. Then I think its ok to download the full version illegally, check it out, and see if it's going to be worth your investment. If you don't like it, then you just uninstall the warez version. If you do think it will be worth your money, then you uninstall the warez version, and go out and buy it! If an individual purchases a piece of software that he/she is unable to properly evaluate beforehand and ends up blowing a lot of money on something that cant be used, then it is my opinion that the company is stealing from the user. I have used this method of using warez to evaluate software dozens of times, and I'm glad I have. Some of the software I have tried was great, so I bought it. Others were bad (or not suited for what I wanted to do) so I simply uninstalled the warez version and saved myself from wasting a couple thousand dollars on something I couldnt use.

Peace out...

just to let you all know the address in my sig is wrong. http://flegmaticdevteam.cjb.net/ will take you to my site if you want to see some of the software i'm working on...