This makes me a sad panda.
I love Rics, and think the copyright should be protected aggressively on any NEW copies, but not old copies. Thats just ridiculous IMO. A lot of people read this forum who are not members, as a result of Google searches etc, and this kind of behaviour from Ric is the kind of thing that would get marketing people FIRED from my company... surefire way of alienating potential customers.