Guys, This horse has been beat to death numerous times.It is not a subject we like seeing discussed in our forums.And, everyone knows it. So, am shutting this thread down. Please do not bring it up again.

Becuase "I" being an owner of a fully "legal" copy of the game for which I "paid" don't "feel" like wasting that "20" seconds every time I start the sim.- You aren't the owner. You are a licensee. You paid for the privlidge to run the game. Just like I pay for the privlidge to drive, and hence have a "drivers license". If I constantly speed, I can "lose" that privlidge, even though I don't "hurt" anyone in doing so. You don't get to decide how you USE the game, it's not YOURS to decide.If it didn't exist, I certainly wouldn't create it and distribute it.- Why not? Obviously there isn't anything wrong with it, so why wouldn't you create and distribute it? What magical "legal" bounds prevents you from creating or distributing it, but not from "using" something "illegally" created by someone else?