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>Just think about it for a few min, maybe reality will hit you.  Maybe the 
>scope of the issue you're talking about will come to you.
>
>Now if someone is selling pirated CDs with ChessBase material on it, that 
>*might* (doubtful?) be worth their while, but if someone is just trading 
>(swapping, whatever you want to call it) for personal use, do you think that 
>ChessBase has the resources to go after individuals from here and there all 
>over the world?  Come on.
>
>Microsoft can't, but maybe ChessBase can... right, ok ;)
>
>No doubt there will be some who will come riding in on their moral high 
>horse and chastise me for saying such things, and try to portray me as the 
>scourge of the earth, but don't waste your time/energy.
>
>I have a realistic point of view, not some fancy-dancy, high-and-mighty 
>ideological dreams of a perfect society in which nobody does anything wrong.
>
>
>You won't stop anyone from doing what he or she is going to do anyway.
>
>
>"CCCage" <chessboa[nospam]@anonymous.to> wrote in <dfkI6.59012$HF.12670557
>@news4.rdc1.on.home.com>:
>
>>Further to the many postings made at rgcc requesting the trading and/or
>>downloading of pirated software, what is Chessbase's policy on this matter
>>in regard to enforcement and prosecution ??
>>
>>Has Chessbase ever sought a criminal or civil investigation into a case of
>>pirating ?!
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>CCCage
>>
The point you cleverly wish to avoid is that if "something" is morally
wrong...it's wrong whatever consequence or no befalls you. If you choose to
ignore a personal wrong personal conduct, it's only your self esteem that
erodes.

You can shrug that off; laugh it off; ignore it; but it's still there, because
YOU know it was wrong.

Personally, that's just too big a burden for most people.
W C (Bill) Haines