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Old 08-19-2007, 02:28 PM  
Minte
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Originally Posted by noone1 View Post
How many major commercial companies do you think would risk not owning the software. They don't exactly make programs everyone can use. Also, don't forget that their really expensive stuff cant even be run by 99% of people. My brother works at a post house and the machines that run the high end applications cost millions.

Sure, 3dsmax, combustion, autocad, maya, and the other desktop stuff can be run on normal computers, but the majority of the people who will download this won't be using it for anything commercial anyway. These aren't exactly MS Office or Warcraft.
That's all true,most people won't ever use any of it. But it doesn't change the fact that it was all there to download.

My experience with authorized AUTODESK dealers is that they don't care whether or not you use it at home or at the office. It's $4k a seat.

If anyone really has the incentive and resources to go after these torrent sites it's companies like Autodesk.
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