Surely not!

Lastly.... It gets funnier and funnier by the day how the guy running this tinpot illegal copied software website from his shed in the Parsons Cross area of Sheffield sneers at the likes of Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo/EMI, thinking they are allowing him to continue running this operation for ever. do you honestly think they are turning a blind eye? Do you honestly think they are spitting feathers because they cannot get you prosecuted? Do you honestly think they have viewed you website and thought: "Oh well, we can't do anything about that...Lets just leave him to it". Do you honestly think that they are to leave you alone because you are a crafty del-boy type fella, selling hooky CD's for a bit of beer money? You thought wrong, young man! These are amongst some of the largest grossing companies in the World, and do not take kindly to blokes on council estates stealing their work and reselling at a profit. They employ the best legal representatives in the World to protect their products, and trust me - they will have offices collecting evidence as we speak, and when all that juicy evidence is collated...the first people they target will be QUOTE: "The Worlds No1 Backup Service Provider". XL also claim they will around long after 'The Pirate Bay has perished'.......pull the other one. Sites like the pirate bay thought they were above the law simply because they provided links and torrent files, but not the actual copyrighted material....they were still sent to jail. XL is selling copyrighted software at a profit, which is even worse! See you on the front page of the Sheffield Star very soon!

Also.... XL are still selling the XBox games BORDERLANDS and FORZA 3 on their website. Since these games are not yet legally for sale anywhere, the 'only to be used as backups' excuse will not wash. Pirated software.

I'd best tell my wife that i'm a sad reclusive virgin ....and my kids

What's also funny is that someone else called Tim Shaw is a Sheffield born DJ, and was recently controversially sacked from Sheffield-based radio station Hallam FM..... ......concluding the name on the domain reg is fake. As an internet trader, XL must display a geographical address on the website to abide by the DSR's. XL has previously informed my they are fully aware they must do this, but are happy to omit the required information until they get caught. XL have failed to provide proof that their geographical address is NOT 2*0 E*m L*n*, Sh*ffi*ld. Xl claim on their own website that these details are fake. I absolutely challenge XL Trading to prove that the above address is not the geographical location of XL. The simplest way to do this is to adhere to the DSR's and publish your true geographical address. But again, this falls on deaf ears, because XL are fully aware that they are conducting extremely iffy activity and do not want a knock on the door from the local fuzz. XL know they are exploiting an incredibly small loophole in the law which allows them to sell pirated software (but they are never going to admit this on a forum, are they?)

The XL holding page says temporarily offline, which makes me wonder if they will be back once the adobe 'backup' products are deleted. Someone better inform Mr Bristow, sorry, XL on their Twitter page that their website is down.www.twitter.com/xltrading . Regarding 'backup' copies of software - we are aware that an owner of the original copy of the software has the right to keep one backup copy for his/her own purposes... ...but only one copy....Therefore If XL own the original, they can only make one backup copy of this, therefore producing only one sale from each original copy IYSWIM. The onus is also on the seller to ensure that their customers are purchasing for legal backup use only. Morally, the seller must request proof that the buyer already owns the origianl version of the software...without this indicates that the seller is willing to sell to anyone. ...but of course, the seller is well aware that 99.99999% of buyers don't own the original.... Oh, and another thing: XL never released a geographical address on their website, which is legally required to abide by the DSR's. No website can legally sell anything without it.