Everything you said is lies.
I will have to disagree with the being caught aspect. IRC is the last thing that will get you caught.
Mind telling that to the hundreds of people who are in jail for credit card theft after the FBI cracked down on credit card number channels on DALnet a couple of years ago? I'm sure they'll love to know that people don't get caught on IRC...
And as far as getting virii/trojans.. it is far less likely to get one off IRC (assuming you use the larger warez channels).
Again, a lie. Yes, if the channel knows someone is serving viruses (the word is viruses, not virii, virii is a word that was created by the same people who coined 'l33t' and 'h4x0r') they will ban the person. But who says they have to know? If someone knows what they are doing, they can easily encode a virus into a program without effecting the program. Meaning as far as you know, the program works fine, it just sorta in the background takes over your system. But unless they run a virus scanner they won't know. Oh and guess where those people usually get the virus scanners? Also warez, so someone could easily make a virus scanner that doesn't actually detect anything so that way it will never detect the viruses available in the other downloads.
