True but on the other hand companies are moving work to contires that always rank high on pirating, e..g, China and Russia. They do this to save money, which is their right, but don't belly ache about piracy if your going to sleep with the pirates. Lowering prices and allowing computer software to be installed on 3 or 4 machines for home users would go a long way to cutting down on piracy. I think most people would prefer to run legal software if it were less expensive and they didn't feel they were getting screwed. Nearly $100 for XP OEM is outrageous. $100 for use on 3 computers is reasonable.