This. As a teenager those days, I never bought software and always cracked them. I grew up learning to use Photoshop, Visual Studio, 3ds max etc. cracked. Now

This. As a teenager those days, I never bought software and always cracked them. I grew up learning to use Photoshop, Visual Studio, 3ds max etc. cracked. Now I'm an adult who learned some of those tools profesionally, and paying for them (or services around some of them) legally. If I didn't use them cracked in my teenage years, perhaps I would have never become a paying user in the first place.