Hi Shaun, Regardless of weather someone puts an, " if you like this buy it, " type message on it it is still software piracy and is still theft. Look at it like this. If a guy puts out a crack out for an accessible game, slaps a disclaimer on it knowing full well most people will ignore it, and then makes it available he still is consciously breaking the end user license and has contributed to a theft. If I then come along, download that game an it's crack, and later don't buy it I have stolen that game from the company that produced it. Shame on the guy who put the crack out there, and double shame on me for steeling it. In short putting a warning on a program not to steel it even though you put it up for that very purpose is a crime. It is almost like the cigarette companies here in the USA that print warning labels on the cigarette packs stating something like, "Danger! Use of this product may cause heart attacks, cancer, strokes, and death..." Ok, since the cigarette companies know their product do those things making their product is morally and ethically wrong. Yet they always can state the end user baught the product, smoked it, and suffered the results of his or her own actions. Yet, the cigarette companies in truth can not be totally inocent, because they knowingly, willingly, and without conscience sold several people a product that will cause them physical harm. An accesible game is no different. If you crack a game, and give it away you are morally responcible for that other persons theft.
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