Hey guys, thanks very much for your help. I appreciate it very much and am also impressed by your diplomacy skills.
I have to say after writing that post yesterday I was concerned I'd would be woken up the next morning by FBI agents and Macromedia executives coming to arrest me and/or kill me for piracy.
Thus, partly through fear and your examples, I will not pursue this unlawful activity any longer, and will not use google, or google groups, as useful as they may be, for the aquirement of any crack or any kind of piracy software or hardware.
However, for the sake of education and prevention, please feel free to carry on the thread, to find out more about organized crime on the web, and indeed, how to avoid it.
thank you