Hello, I'm not sure if this is illegal or not but I came across this script called "scoopscript". I haven't downloaded it but it claims on their website that the client is $10 after a certain amount of days yet last time I checked you can't make people pay to use mIRC, correct?
The page is located here:
http://www.scoopsite.com/ (Note: Slow loading at times)
~S0RD3N