This is a sad day indeed. I haven't used amibench for a while but used to buy and sell there regularly.
Re. Piracy: The last time I did use amibench it was to swap my CD32 for a 10gig HD.
The other chap lived near Glasgow so I arranged to meet him in town. As he handed me the drive he told me that OS3.9 was installed on it and loads of games. When I got into the drive I noticed that the games were cracked pirate versions. I formatted the whole thing anyway and I still use OS3.5. I felt a bit funny about having 'purchased' pirate software but wouldn't dream of trying to blame Tecno for 'allowing it to be sold'. That really is pathetic.
I hope he resurrects Amibench but can understand if he does not.
This also shows that Wayne is not alone in feeling exasperated with some of this 'community'.