If you cannot afford to pay it in your current situation, no-one is going to kill you, if Khaled simply made mIRC stop working after your trial period, that would be another matter, I believe the general idea is that eventually you should pay for it, if you believe your getting 'value for money'.
However, you will find (by visiting the 'payment page/main page', that khaled runs charity registrations, whereby it will either be $20 which will goto charity, or alternatively he will allow you to specify an amount between $10 - $30 as i recall.
Eamonn.
