Finally..

Looks like we are hitting on someone's nerves here ;)

Downloading the software off of torrents for things such as the adobe photoshop cs3 installer is not illegal, as in reality its just a copy of the trial downloads they had on the adobe site before they replaced them with cs4. It becomes illegal when you activate it using a keygen, etc...

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Originally Posted by Source

Looks like we are hitting on someone's nerves here ;)

Downloading the software off of torrents for things such as the adobe photoshop cs3 installer is not illegal, as in reality its just a copy of the trial downloads they had on the adobe site before they replaced them with cs4. It becomes illegal when you activate it using a keygen, etc...

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if theyre that bothered about them losing X amount every year then they should invest mroe time and money in making the trial copies more stringent on how they are activated. Im sure if they did that then they wouldnt lose out as much,, ie, money put in < money recieved

They should spend more time making the trial copies harder to crack, but I doubt they will, as people will break it as fast as they solve it.

Without torrents/rapdishare downloads of photoshop the chances are it wouldn't be leading in the industry.. so in a way they can almost thank the community for that.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7895026.stm

Woops.

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Originally Posted by Source

They should spend more time making the trial copies harder to crack, but I doubt they will, as people will break it as fast as they solve it.

Without torrents/rapdishare downloads of photoshop the chances are it wouldn't be leading in the industry.. so in a way they can almost thank to community for that.

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I actually agree quite a lot, i never thought of it like that before :P

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Originally Posted by kk.

dont u ******* call me kid...
and tbh, it does sound like ur pissed.. moaning about how people d/l for free. Its not the fact that you cant use other software, its the fact that the design industry wants specific experience with one of the most recognisable applications. dreamweaver, frontpage, photoshop, illustrator, flash etc... Strangley enough, it all costs around £300.. surprise surprise.

And thats another point, why would u want to fork out that much money just to make a habbo signature. Maybe they want to use the features that PS has and not use crappy paint to try and apply a shadow

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That kind of excuse is just plane lame. "Oh i want a CD player for my car, it doesn't come with this feature and i can't be bothered paying for it, hey theres a similar car with a CD player lets steal it".

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Originally Posted by Source

Looks like we are hitting on someone's nerves here ;)

Downloading the software off of torrents for things such as the adobe photoshop cs3 installer is not illegal, as in reality its just a copy of the trial downloads they had on the adobe site before they replaced them with cs4. It becomes illegal when you activate it using a keygen, etc...

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not rli..

If you read my post i said illegal files such as keygens/music, etc.

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Originally Posted by kk.

if theyre that bothered about them losing X amount every year then they should invest mroe time and money in making the trial copies more stringent on how they are activated. Im sure if they did that then they wouldnt lose out as much,, ie, money put in < money recieved

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I'm pretty sure they couldnt just open their application and stick in "MONEYZ RECEIVED < LESS DAN MONEYZ NEEDED = PRODUCT NO WORK" and there'll always be ways around it and making files more secure could cause more problems for clients, i think the spore game it was that had that and clients suffered?

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Originally Posted by Source

They should spend more time making the trial copies harder to crack, but I doubt they will, as people will break it as fast as they solve it.

Without torrents/rapdishare downloads of photoshop the chances are it wouldn't be leading in the industry.. so in a way they can almost thank to community for that.

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LOLOLOOOLOLOL yes its due to torrents that its popular :rolleyes:

Loads and loads of people would not be using it if they had to pay it. In some ways it ends up better for them, I wouldn't have bought a license if I hadn't had used it a good year before illegally, sometimes 30 days just isn't enough of a trial ;)

If it wasnt popular in the first place not many people would know of it so it's hardly have any people uploading it on sites for people to download in the first place, furthermore it'd have hardly any users downloading it if it wasnt popular.

There is a huge difference between popular and the market leader with the biggest usershare.

Corel Draw is "popular" but its not the market leader.

So you think its benefiting the company losing thousands due to people illegaly downloading their software? LOLOL.