Originally Posted by TheDoc

All your research and knowledge really shows up in this post. So you are saying you have never downloaded pirated software and then purchased it?

Knowing that you have... and so have millions of others, and even Adobe as admitted that Piracy built them, it funds them. They ALLOWED the piracy to happen, they created holes in the software to make it easy, they provided it broken up to fit on discs.


You "ASSUME" all piracy is bad, when in fact is isn't. It's bad someone steals from you, it's not bad when you allow it to happen. Every basic marketing concept can be applied to Piracy, and yet our Industry tosses it all out the door.


What's SO funny is you people think Piracy is a one way door. People steal, money is lost, nobody ever buys if they can get it for free, ever. The logic on that is utterly stupid.