> Actually users benefit: they can get games without paying for them That wasn't really the thing in the 80th and early 90th. The thing was, that especially on

> Actually users benefit: they can get games without paying for them That wasn't really the thing in the 80th and early 90th. The thing was, that especially on the C64 the games got streamlined by good crackers by being one-sided, fast-load added, and trained as well. This means, that cracks actually featured a lot more benefits than the original. That's why many of us refused to buy originals. There was one saying: "Good software is worth buying". Sometimes the crackers even fixed bugs, added highscore savers, level picker etc. The list could go on and on. This is comparable to DVDs and their silly copy protection warning vs mpegs without this thing.