>>but it's a different story when someone uses the product without a license<<

Perhaps an email to padders may be better. He's not been at the forum since November. If you used the information in his forum profile to do the lookup then that may not be reliable.

>>Of course, using it to develop a similar product/method is also illegal in itself.<<

I could understand stealing copyrighted code being illegal, but using it to create a similar script isn't illegal surely?