I have seen publisher copied about the net more than one time already. I am still sticking with 2.23 however. Perhaps now you realize that it was not so hot to keep maya and 3dsmax on your drives too, especialy admitting the fact.
I bought a Publisher License
and agree totally that warezing
it off is just a fat slap in the groin
to Ton, Zycho, and all the others that
busted so much butt to get it (and
all the free upgrades to 2.23) to us.
Warezing it wont help NaN or Blender recover… It will only lessen the value of the Publisher license. Which right now is quite high in my opinion. As I can, as a licensed Publisher owner, create executables and lock, sign and compress my blend files. And also having the upgrades in 2.24 and 2.25. A great benefit worth keeping.
I also like free stuff, but Publisher isn´t free. And Ton and the others ARE NOT DEAD. I don´t judge you, but see it that way. If you put a hell of a lot of work into something and you try to live on it, and someone else distributes it for free… wouldn´t you be angry, too?
It is complicated with software, because it can be copied easily, but they spent their time on this. So please don´t help to make it worthless. Time is very valuable. And it doesn´t disappear with bankruptcy. Blender and the spirit behind it is TOO respectable to be pirated.
the Copyright is very important to all, who create something. Please don´t help violating it.