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Re:Dear Websites, Stop Asking for Ransom Sign-Ups by ljm on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @08:34PM (#36965329)
Adobe is basically a monopoly and it is well documented that they allowed piracy because it meant that the pirates would become dependent on their tools.

Doesn’t matter how you edited a photo technically, it is still photoshopped.

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Re:Dear Websites, Stop Asking for Ransom Sign-Ups by TeMPOraL on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @03:03AM (#36967885)
Yup, same with Microsoft - they won the desktop OS and office productivity markets thanks, in big part, to their tacit approval of individual-level pirating of Windows and Office.
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