My ethics have always been good. but when it comes to intellectual property, I really can't see any reason to pay for a piece of software that I might use for up to a month, and then never use again. furthermore, as with music, I generally dont do more than get songs that I can already hear on the radio, or Internet radio. how is me downloading them any different from recording them myself? Some things I might end up buying to play on the internet. In which case, Id already pirated it and just needed the CD key to play. Some people will argue with me till their blue in the face about how its wrong, and in the end, I just nod at them and say "thats a very interesting opinion," and then I walk away.