Here's the official word from us at the Towers.
You write to this forum from your own computer and naturally think in terms of yourself and whatever you feel you have the personal right to do with software.
However, we at the Towers read what you write with our names and addresses indelibly linked to the site and, as publishers of what you write, are responsible for it.
Individually you are targets not worth bothering with. Collectively PPRuNe offers a glorious publicity outburst if targetted and it costs the same as just chasing one of you. Taking you to court won't get on TV - taking us will.
Go ahead - fill your boots with hacks, cracks and felt tip trickery but do it by e-mail where no-one will bother with you. We aren't putting 7 years of work at risk so you can burn a gash copy of bleedin' Neil Diamond, Live at the Rochdale Alhambra.
Rob Lloyd