When you download the software from an unauthorized site, it is STEALING, and you are a thief. The only place you can get the software legally is from RTI.

It's easier to just steal it off the internet than to pay to have your remote programmed, but you would rather do it the easy way. When you go to the grocery store and get a cart full of groceries, do you just walk out without paying for them? After all, that would be easier than waiting in line to pay for them. No, you stop and pay for them because you don't want to get arrested and goto jail.

The only reason you feel it's OK to take software, and I'm sure movies and music, online illegally, is because you don't fear getting punished for your actions. The crime is the same, but the punishment is not.