Joe - if someone posts something on a website and you can download it for free, you're saying that you believe it's ok. The RIAA, movie studios, and software manufacturers will disagree, as demonstrated in their (victorious) legal actions against individuals for distributing their properties without permission.

The entire web isn't run like Facebook and YouTube. When someone posts copyrighted material without the copyright owner's permission, it takes time and the proper legal channels to have it dealt with. The web hosts/ISP needs to be involved. It's an ordeal. That doesn't change the ethics of it.

Why didn't you just get the software from the place you bought it from? That's who you should be upset with - the company/individual who sold you the remote. Instead, you're making claims that hard working, extremely skilled people don't have a right to make a living. That's wrong. Just like electricians, mechanics, plumbers, IT professionals - A/V dealers make money by providing solutions, which require extensive knowledge and skills, just the same - which may include providing you with software. But the "dealer" you went to didn't. You had to obtain it through illicit sources.

It sounds like the "dealer" you bought from just didn't care about you after the sale. That unfortunate, because that's not how any good installer does business.



Damon