What I've noticed "Professional" software like Photoshop is that a vast quantity of copies are pirated. In corporate settings and among very successful practiti

What I've noticed "Professional" software like Photoshop is that a vast quantity of copies are pirated. In corporate settings and among very successful practitioners, not so much, but among any other category of people I've met that use Photoshop/Final Cut/AutoCad/etc, a very large portion of the copies are pirated. From that, I really wouldn't be surprised if they grabbed stuff such as these textures from Deviant Art without any regard to the rights. I've certainly seen it happen. I suppose what I'm saying is that I'd be interested to see how many people among the users of Photoshop who aren't such kung-fu masters of it to have tons of their own such things worked out are going to pay for this stuff instead of looking for it on torrents.