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Originally posted by Mutt
i made the point that there is a difference between kids and non business people using warez for their own enjoyment and education - strictly speaking it ain't right either but i think it works out well for the software companies like Adobe - my point is when you have an income over $50,000 a year, you should pay for the software that helps you make that income. You are a thief at this point. This just isn't in the online world, I can show you mainstream office after office running on bootleg software and multiple copies of one software package.
When i started out I had cracked Photoshop4, GifAnimator2, Illustrator, CuteFTP, ThumbsPlus, etc etc - now years later I only have registered Photoshop6, CuteFTP and Swish. That's all i have. I will buy Illustrator soon and FlashMX if I think i wanna give Flash another shot.
I have friends with hard drives full of every program imagineable that they offer to me. That's my moral line in the sand, if i make money off the software, I should buy it. If i'm messing around with it to learn or for fun - I'm not going to feel guilty about using
a warez version.
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Well said. I have bought one FTP program 5 fucking times because I formatted hard drives or lost the info. For a measly $30 who cares. That is their business just like the peoples here is content, paysites, tgp, or whatever. A non commercial user grabbing some prog to check out isn't the same as a business using stolen items to make money.
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