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I'll echo radicalbyte's comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5911792 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5911792) which is that Adobe doesn't care abo
by ajiang 13y ago
I'll echo radicalbyte's comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5911792 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5911792) which is that Adobe doesn't care about the casual user who pirates their software. It's extremely expensive software that they would only expect professionals to pay for, and typically those designers, graphic artists, etc. at companies are not going to be pirating anything. Their companies will pay for the software, and given the choice, those professionals will pick the software they're most comfortable with. By making it pretty darn easy to get your hands on a pirated copy, Adobe is playing the long game but winning in the end as the steep learning curve keeps their users from switching.
- socialist_coder 13y agoIt's not easy to pirate though. The last versions have been pretty tricky for "normal" people to successfully crack and run. Just look at the comments on any file sharing site. The majority of them are like, "i cant get this to work". People end up running an older version and not the latest. If this was really their intended strategy they would just make a free version for students or amateurs. As it is now, they are spending a LOT of effort trying to make it harder to crack their products. And it is harder, but it's still possible. Look at Autodesk Maya, they have a free version for students so there is absolutely no reason to pirate it.