i acknowledge that the forum rules explcitly tell us not to help people with illegal filesharing. however, the reasoning behind it is bunk. while irc was designed to be a "chat" protocol, it has grown into something entirely different. if we are going to only help people that want to use mirc to "chat", then by the same token, we should not help people who want to use mirc to play music, write bots, download information with sockets, write f-servs, etc..
additionally, if mirc is for strictly "chatting" purposes, then what place do the identifiers $disk, $finddir, $findfile, $hash, $md5, $portfree, $regex and so forth have? i know someone is going to try and come up with a legitimate (read: "chat") use for these identifiers, but the truth is, 99% of people using $hash are not using it to store a list of the 10 people that they regularly talk to on irc.
