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Originally Posted by Socks
Not at all man.
How many "designers" here could afford $600 photoshop at 12-13 years old when they were perfecting their craft? Yet they probably grew up, and bought a bunch of Adobe products they now use in their professional business.
Piracy isn't all loss in the software world, far from it.
What good comes from downloading media is beyond me though, I don't see any value other than convenience to the end user, and I wouldn't argue the same points on media piracy.
However, we're on computers, in a digital age, using software to transmit this media. I do not think we'd be here without it, growth would have come much more slowly.
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Dead on there. And anyone that doesnt think Adobe knows this and probably even helps stuff get "released" into the wild needs to think again. You go look at softward like 3dmax, and maya that has a crazy jumping off point price wise. They know their stuff is out there. Its long term investment.
Ill give you an example. My 3d guy currently does work for Motorola, Sony, The history channel etc etc. on Cinema 4d. He started off with a pirated copy to learn it. The funny part of it is this. He befriended a guy that worked for the company. The guy loved his work so much he showed it to the higher ups at Cinema 4d. They told him to tell my 3d guy they wanted to give him the new version that just came out for free. So they needed his original serial number in order to grant the license. He stupidly gave them the pirated serial he had. They of course knew it was pirated. He thought he would get in trouble over it. The guys from Cinema 4d sent him a brand new disc and big package of their software for .... FREE. Even though they knew he was using a pirated version to learn on.
Here are some of his samples.
Now understand what Im saying here, and yes there are differences of course from adult, companies use piracy as a means to get new loyal customers etc etc.
I guess the jist of it is this. Adult needs to unify over this issue, and I dont see that happening by Joe Smo calling out Billy Bob. What needs to happen is finding ways to exploit the piracy more. Do I have the solution? No but Ive put forth several ideas that people dont seem to care to discuss.
Right now we have a million lone wolfs out there in adult. Need to form a wolf pack and that wont happen the way things currently are going.