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: 60% of Photoshop Users are PIRATES! - From Digg

March 29, 2008 by Brad
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Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s life for me….

I think this actually says more about Photoshop and Adobe than it does the photographers themselves. I think if you looked at non photographic users and targeted this survey to college kids, your percentage of pirated users would probably be around 90% or higher. Photoshop as are most Adobe products great pieces of software, but simply put they aren’t affordable for most users. When such a high percentage of things start falling off the back of a truck on the information superhighway there is usually something wrong on the business end of things.

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Taylor from Adobe Flex Training on Wed, 19th Nov 2008 2:06 pm

I think most people do this these days. Why pay for some expensive product when you can just download it off the internet for free with little to no consequences. It’s not the right message to be sending but clearly it is not stopping.

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Bradley Hart on Thu, 20th Nov 2008 2:53 am

@Taylor@Adobe Flex Training -
There certainly is the so few people get caught mentality going on when it comes to piracy. There is also a lot of people who feel the need to stick it to big companies that charge huge amounts of money for their software. Personally I think adobe would do considerably better in the profit margin if they simply made photoshop and other programs dirt cheap. There would still be some piracy if the program was $25.00 but the total number of units they would sell and how many existing users would be willing to upgrade every time a new version comes out would more than make up for the price difference.

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