Digital BW, The Print

From:  jimbo <mrjimbo@...>

David... I got how upset you are about all this and I respect it.. I mean
that..So it's not about that I don't want to support your position... it's
more that, in conscience I can't as I am intimately familiar with this
software abuse technology and in the long run if they can't resolve that
their screwed.. I don't want them to leave us as a software source.. It's
just to special..
 
Constructively Adobe now has a sense of how much illegal software is
actually out there .. we must remember that they are paying to support and
upgrade it.. Those costs are passed back to us..


Jimbo,
The piracy excuse is nonsense.
First, I read that CC was cracked within HOURS of release. HOURS!! Not days
or weeks!
So it is just plain silly for Adobe to think they are going to stop piracy
by screwing everyone who PAYS for their software.
That's like the police kicking down your door and arresting you in the
middle of the night because someone else held up a liquor store.
I haven't seen Adobe explain CC anywhere with the "piracy prevention"
excuse, but if they did, it would never hold water.

Second, software is generally not pirated by people who could pay for it but
won't. Largely, it is pirated by people who need it but can't afford it, and
bored teenagers, millions of bored teenagers who download it, install it,
play with it for a few hours and then never touch it again, until the next
pirated version comes out.
Then, there is the cultural thing. In the US (and I presume England, Canada,
Australia, etc.) we view piracy as a crime and the people who do it,
generally hide their faces. They know they've done something wrong.
In Latin America, China, the Middle East, etc., they don't see anything
wrong with it, AND Adobe grossly overprices it for those cultures anyway.
People who can't afford something and genuinely believe it should be either
cheap or free, will not pay regardless of the marketing method or payment
schedule.

I remember when I lived in Peru, you could go downtown and find pirated
software of EVERY kind on the street. Right out in the open. Of course you
might have to wait a couple of minutes until the policeman or Mayor or
Senator in line ahead of you finished HIS purchase, but it was and still is,
just that easy. Adobe could stand on their heads and whistle Dixie for the
next twenty years and they are NEVER going to change those cultures. Bottom
line, even an honest person who wants to buy the software legitimately in
these countries cannot do so because the price is so steep. Imagine that
Photoshop cost you $6,000 here instead of $600! That is the kind of income
difference you can expect.

If Adobe's plan is to force people who cannot afford their software to buy
it anyway, good luck to them. It is a monumentally stupid plan.


David Kachel

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