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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.

- I'd take that bet. It's meant to be a minor annoyance, as Mentality said it would defeat the object of mIRC being shareware if there was no notification or 'penalty' for not paying. It may encourage cracking, but only to those people who wouldn't have paid for mIRC anyway, otherwise they would've paid instead of seeing that dialog in the first place. Perhaps mIRC is being cracked more than before, but it just means that those who don't want to pay or see that About dialog have to put in some extra work to crack it, and it certainly doesn't mean less registrations.