Just host the offending components on an offshore server, and have the program download them off the internet automatically on first launch.

This is one thing I will not bend over and take it ** *** ****, I will fight as much as possible, I have a strong view of what is fair and what is not.

As you may have noticed on www.ghisler.com today (August 27), I'm participating in a protest against the planned European Software patents. The European Union plans software patents and logical patents similar to the USA. This would give us ridiculous patents like the Amazon "One click" order patent. Software patents are a big thread to shareware authors like myself, because almost any trivial idea can be patented. Unfortunately Switzerland (my country) almost always adopts changes to the Patent system in the EU, although Switzerland isn't part of the EU.

Since many methods are the only logical way of doing something in software, software patents can effectively block the development of any similar software. Only big corporations with many software patents will then be able to sell software, because they have patent cross licencing agreements with all other big corporations. Small companies like ourselves will vanish from the market.

If you don't want that Total Commander disappears, please participate in the protest against software patents too!

NICE, but we all know that it will be bypassing of LAW. In fact dBpowerAMP WILL USE mp3 encoder/decoder w/o $ for owner of patent.
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This is wider problem - why indenpend developer, even who sell his program and say that piracy of his own program is BAD, use tricks to bypass LAW and steal(?) intellectual property of e.g. Thomson? I don’t say here about Spoon, about some developers in general...