Of course you can give away your ORIGINAL bought sample library or plugin or everything else (same with the ORIGINAL comic). But you cannot COPY it. You couldn't bring your purchased comic to the copy shop, copy it 10 times and give the copies to your friends, either - this wouldn't be legal.

Great! More warez supporting scum with braindead arguments. When I buy a comic I actually buy the magazine and not a license to read it. When I buy software I do not buy the product but the right to use it, e.g. I am not allowed to change the code. Thus I have no right to share the product beyond what is agreed to in my license. About Williambraveheart here, we are talking about a user who have entered KVR may 2012 and this is his second post. It is amazing how threads such as this can make the slime-things come creeping from their holes in the ground. Hiding behind their sockpuppets and God knows what.

If I buy an album, can I share it with a friend? If I buy a guitar, can I let a friend use it? Am I allowed to modify my guitar and then sell it? Am I allowed to give away a book that I have already read?

I see lots of products that are samples of hardware synths, and samples of sample players, are these products illegal?

I see software effects that are blatant copies of hardware effects, is this Illegal? If I take the algorithms from a product and wrap my own GUI around it, is that illegal? If I sample a Yamaha drum, do I have to give Yamaha a percentage of my sales?

I am buying a license to use a software product, and I have no rights other than provided for in said license. Wrong, software developers application of a licensing paradigm does not curtail or reduce the rights I retain from common law.

Copyright protection is a serious matter, and needs to be effective, so that the creators of media are compelled to produce superior content. Software developers have unfortunately abused the consumer with the licensing paradigm.

I have one product that uses an ilok 2. It is Ivory 2. I will never buy an ilok product again, and I do not like what I have to go through to sell my licensed Ivory 2. Ivory 2 is a great product, but I hate the dongle, so I don't use it.

I also have Reason 6.5 which uses a dongle. I purchased Reason 4 and Record 1.0 when it was released, soon Reason 5 was released, I did not upgrade. Reason 6 was released and Propellerheads allowed me to upgrade for $1.00, and up to reason 6.5 for free. Thank you Propellerheads for being decent, however at the same time, I bought "hypersampled" refills from them, and they suck, and I felt ripped off. Plus I never got a $50 rebate visa card from Line6 for the purchase. Reason is a great product, but I don't use it. I may use it some time though, despite the dongle. My hateful feelings have been mitigated by the generous upgrade deal.

I also own Cubase 5, which uses a dongle. Soon after I bought it Cubase 6 was released I did not upgrade. then they released Cubase 6.5, I did not upgrade. Cubase 7 is now being released, I probably will not upgrade, because it is not fair that I have to pay more overall to use the product then someone who is purchasing it for the first time. I will never buy a product that requires a dongle again.

I am painfully aware of why there is a warez scene, and I sympathize, even though I don't condone it, or participate in it. Frankly, I view the warez scene as a necessary evil, but I truly wish there was no need for it

So, exactly why is the warez scene necessary?

I think you wanted to say: "El pirata es muerto"