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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mynex" data-source="post: 1299547" data-attributes="member: 2136">Really?  So copying software is not theft?You're denying income to a company.  That company doesn't have that sale.  1 sale, big deal, right?  wrong.  Software companies have employee's to pay, overhead to pay for, some have debts to repay, some have royalties to pay, etc...  So you are removing the money that sale would have generated, you deny the company that profit, and by getting the software without paying for it, it is theft.  Don't believe it?  Ask a lawyer.  People are prosecuted very often for software 'Theft' (piracy).  The state and federal governments define software piracy as theft, you're personal definition of theft, doesn't matter here, what the law says is what matters.That was in general, an overall approach to software and piracy.  Even 1 'copy' is theft, but in this age of Kazaa and the like, it's never _1_ copy.  It is usually in the hundred for smaller programs, or thousands and tens of thousands for larger companies.And in our case, there is absolutely no reason for it.  We don't charge several hundred dollars for our software, we don't charge hundreds of dollars for a data set and we're not a large company.  We cater to the community, our prices are reasonable, and even if you don't want to spend the money on the data sets, you can enter the information yourself.  It may not be easy for some things, but our forums are there for people to ask questions and we have a community of people perfectly willing to help someone make their own stuff, we (as in CMP) will even help by telling people how to do things.Getting something you didn't pay for is theft, pure and simple.  there is no argument to the contrary, there is no justification.</blockquote>

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