hehe Well there seems to be a couple of reasonable posters here and less kids than what I expected. So ill try to be a little more serious.
On one hand its a personality thing really, a gamer like "rune_74" is more prone to a holier than thou attitude while I take the cynical one all the way to the top even knowing that in principle I do am wrong.
In the end it doesnt matter its that simple. One could point the finger and threaten, irrelevant, possibly one could manage to induce a small sense of guilt because in this particular case I do enjoy the game and I certainly have some care for philosophy behind it.
I do in some way truly believe the arguments FOR NOT copy protecting or pursuing people that do not purchase games or register shareware ones are not truly flawed.
So thats it, hate the attitude or love it, do realize that I did not HAVE to indicate that I did or did not purchase the game, same as every other user in the official game forums I assume. Of course I can imagine that the fact I see this issue as such a small deal might be offensive to some people, I suppose one could argue that its just like shoplifting a PC game box but lets face it, it isnt.
There is the principle of things and theres the reality of things which is always relative imho.
With that said I wasnt being an hypocrite with my positive views on eschalon, same way I wasnt with the issue here.
Merry Christmas and Peace.