Two-thirds of software seen pirated in 5 yrs

[Amused]

This is what happens when you make people feel entitled.

 

[alkemyst]

I don't think piracy ever dipped into things...in software.

music, it may be changing the toll, but it's the deal.

If you make reasonably priced educational software, you will get buyers in business.

You don't want Microsoft coming down on your a$$, we had 300 none reported installs in a fortune 400 company...cost us major.

the mom and pop shop with 2 digit employees working for them would probably fly under the radar.

 

[dderidex]

Originally posted by: UNCjigga

Originally posted by: dderidex
Photoshop is an odd example.

You do realize Photoshop Elements - available for $45 - is about 99.99999% of the full version of Photoshop, right? The only difference is that layer masks are a TAD more obtuse (but still easy to work with), and it only allows RGB images instead of CMYK. And that's only relevant if you, for some reason, don't want to use your printer driver's RGB->CMYK driver conversion and just provide the raw CMYK data. (Obviously, this is only something the hardcore professionals have an issue with).

Yet, what do you see pirates doing? Buying the $45 PSE? Or pirating the $600 PS-CS, when they will never actually use a single feature of it they couldn't have bought for $45?

Interesting, I never knew Elements had all those features. I thought I had an Adobe Elements software that came with my printer awhile back and I tried it out and it sucked. Couldn't use any KPT tools or external filters. Half the brushes and tools were missing, less customization of brushes and tools, and it had some memory limit on size of files and couldn't do all the format conversions.

The one to which I refer is PSE 2.0 - no idea about the initial release of it. Might want to take a look at the online help and see if PSE can do what you want, it's definitely a neat little program for cheap.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: dderidex

Originally posted by: UNCjigga

Originally posted by: dderidex
Photoshop is an odd example.

You do realize Photoshop Elements - available for $45 - is about 99.99999% of the full version of Photoshop, right? The only difference is that layer masks are a TAD more obtuse (but still easy to work with), and it only allows RGB images instead of CMYK. And that's only relevant if you, for some reason, don't want to use your printer driver's RGB->CMYK driver conversion and just provide the raw CMYK data. (Obviously, this is only something the hardcore professionals have an issue with).

Yet, what do you see pirates doing? Buying the $45 PSE? Or pirating the $600 PS-CS, when they will never actually use a single feature of it they couldn't have bought for $45?

Interesting, I never knew Elements had all those features. I thought I had an Adobe Elements software that came with my printer awhile back and I tried it out and it sucked. Couldn't use any KPT tools or external filters. Half the brushes and tools were missing, less customization of brushes and tools, and it had some memory limit on size of files and couldn't do all the format conversions.

The one to which I refer is PSE 2.0 - no idea about the initial release of it. Might want to take a look at the online help and see if PSE can do what you want, it's definitely a neat little program for cheap.

I love PS...the CS version, I could use some of it's features. I have a now outdated Photoshop 5 or 6 something...I could go and pirate a copy, but why?...at work I recommended they just use the PSE 2.0 that came with our HP 8250 Scanner...nice package, I find myself not using PS at home anymore.

There are a couple key differences to the two...however, most people only think they need them. Gimp is out for Windows as well, it's a lot like Photoshop and free, again really no need to pirate something...now Gimp and Photoshop are a bit different, but if you are a noob to them, may as well start with the Gimp if you need that level of functionality and can't shell out 3 figures.

They have a PSE 3 out, but I can do what I need with PSE 2 so it's a non-issue at this moment.