I often download trial products for evaluation. What i do not like about it, is being bugged by sales people shortly after, that try to "help me in my evaluation process" without asking for it. The second problem is, that i constantly forget those user-accounts created solely for downloading the last-but-one Websphere or whatever, so that i must have 10 accounts at ibm by now for example. To address this problem, this Firefox Plugin
is utterly useful
. It accesses a central account database
maintained by the community to anonymously login to the desired site. Great idea !