David,
The real offender in pirated software is not in a
cracked serial.. Their is an easier way and the unit appears legal.. At one of
the colleges here in Bozeman they set up a whole new graphics lab with hot
shot 8 core Macs loaded with software ..They paid for all the Macs
including the licenses for 35 Macs loaded with everything..
In the end only one legitimate license was used on all the computers.. so they
got screwed... So your using a cracked serial is really not the issue you
think it is..it's just a part of the issue. Many large business are using this
technology to hold their costs down illegally.. So respectfully I disagree with
you.. Auto desk had to go to this method to
resolve their piracy issue.. It is the only known viable way to resolve it.
This way you can track the serial in combination with the machine it's installed
on..
jimbo
----- Original Message -----
From: David KachelSent: Saturday, September 07, 2013 11:02 AMSubject: Re: [Digital BW] RE: Photoshop Create Cloud program for photographers
From: jimbo <mrjimbo@wispwest.net>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___________________Artist-PhotographerFine B&W Photographswww.davidkachel.comdavid@...Gallery:www.reddoorfinephotographs.comdirector@...PO Box 1893Alpine, TX 79831(432) 386-5787No virus found in this message.
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