hrmm....
im not starting an argument.. just stating the obvious.. which is people dont like annoyances... and like i said. it encourages cracking. im sure khaled would agree. that since the annoyances first appeared. ill bet my sould that he has seen a decrease in registrations. because people are cracking it.
what if u cant send khaled money till after the 30 days. you have to deal with it for the meantime.
im just looking at this from the other side.
i am not saying this is what i would do. seeing as i have already PAID for my copy of mirc.
as for other clients. there are plenty of others out there that have similar functions as mirc. and another client i remember reading about that will start porting mirc scripts.
a personal favorite of mine would be Xchat. but im a linux fanatic. what do i know.