What's "mortified"? Never heard that term before in software. And yes, companies should seriously examine what people in forum are struggling and provide better solution in their products. Hackers are often the one that solved these issues and provide fixes (often much better than what companies could do) So forums and hackers could provide invaluable resources for them. Companies are not looking for "problem to go away", they are looking for problem to go away in this forum. And like I said, they are not happy when their products are being sold without their permission or agreement (ie: Cheap Chinese made WinCE devices running cracked proggy)

@Magnetron I believe links to external sites are allowed (well should be allowed) Most of the "copyrighted" materials are available in other forums (simple google search easily showed them) And then there are things allow to be copied (mistaken to be copyrighted) that are from people posting in forum that gets deleted. If you're lucky to live in an area that is not changing, old maps is fine. Not everyone is so lucky. And if companies didn't charge so much for maps and contents, more people would not resort to taking them. Why do people wants the latest things is the same reason why people choose Apple over android.