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Re:FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations by shuckles on Monday June 17, 2024 @04:35PM (#40710758)
If people were pirating Photoshop only because it was easy to pirate, my guess is when it came to professional work or another occasion where they had the funds to pay for image editing software, they would overcome whatever friction necessary to buy the best. That definitely happens in other cases like video editing where easy to access software is different than what studios pay for.

As a thought experiment: if Photoshop was means tested and free to anyone who couldn’t afford it, would that actually convert users when they had money?

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Re:FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations by fragmede on Monday June 17, 2024 @05:38PM (#40711367)
How many people ever got rich enough to pay for a copy of WinRar?
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Re:FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations by shuckles on Monday June 17, 2024 @07:24PM (#40712379)
I think this is irrelevant. WinRAR's core feature set for most users was made available for free with zip files and operating system support.
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Re:FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations by popcalc on Monday June 17, 2024 @06:40PM (#40711987)
The US government is one of WinRar's biggest customers.
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