An example of how piracy helped a company: Macromedia. Back in the 90s Adobe didn't had trials for their software on their website, and the software was usuall

An example of how piracy helped a company: Macromedia. Back in the 90s Adobe didn't had trials for their software on their website, and the software was usually lots of MB. Compare that to the old 30MB download of a Dreamweaver trial that you could easly find a crack off. If Adobe had done the same with GoLive (former Cyberstudio) at the beginning they would probably have owned the WYSIWYG HTML editor market. Also with some different apps, tough Adobe's Livemotion never was a true competitor to Flash.