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Re:Piracy is not theft, Lost sales don't exist, says Minecra... by boringg on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @02:38PM (#26333270)
Do you think the guilt (was there even any guilt) of having pirated it for many years also made you guy in? I ask as a function of a business strategy they could have let people ride for free until at a certain point they might feel some kind of obligation. I doubt that was ever part of anyones strategy but in hindsight is kind of interesting to riff on.
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Re:Piracy is not theft, Lost sales don't exist, says Minecra... by mywittyname on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @04:24PM (#26334775)
Non-business users will absolutely continue to pirate for as long as possible. Adobe products are basically unpiratable at this point, and the $20/mo subscription service is expensive, but reasonably affordable compared to the $600 or whatever the boxed software ran all those years ago.
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