>From what I've heard the UTICA and DMCA are fairly amazing in their reach, so I could be wrong about what I say next, but I believe that whomever you are, it is very unlikely that any action you take with the profiles you make with a profiling package can be, in and of itself, illegal in a Statutory sense. At the moment, the only way I can see use of the software to be of any risk to the consumer is as a result of a stipulation in a license or sales agreement. Such a stipulation is not a law! If a consumer enters into a contract with a software purveyor that stipulates conditions for use, then it's easy to see that the purveyor might sue the consumer for breach of that contract. Such a suit is not about law! Through the suit will be decided in the terms of the law. So the pertinent question in this context (consumption and uses of commodities profiling packages) is not about whether you are performing an illegal activity. The questions are: how binding are arbitrary stipulations of use included in "shrink wrap" license agreements, and what sorts of risks does the consumer face for breach of such agreements? I think that the answers are *not* obvious, and do not clearly favor the purveyor. Moral and ethical standards are relevant to the substance of contracts as well their enforcement. I am working on some research of this topic, and hope to post findings. I'm not sure how long this will take. If you are someone who has a lot to loose in a lawsuit, you might take any stipulation in any sort of a contract very seriously. Or you might not. Finally, I believe it is morally wrong to self-censor personal creative endeavor (e.g., making and sharing profiles) based solely on fear, uncertainty and doubt cast about in an email forum. I think it is unethical for those in the forum to foster fear, uncertainty and doubt about individual rights to creative endeavor in terms of their dogma and conjecture about the law. Wire Moore - Turn off HTML mail features. Keep quoted material short. Use accurate subject lines. http://www.leben.com/lists for list instructions.