It also allowed Adobe to wipe out competition that was targeted towards the home market (why would you pay $99 for Paint Shop Pro when you could pirate Photoshop for free?)
Even when it comes to open source. There's been many people I've recommended gimp to who insisted on pirating Photoshop instead.
These are people who would balk at the idea of downloading a song illegally or pirating most software, but somehow Photoshop was different.
Not professionals or people who needed advanced unavailable features or anything, people doing tasks easily accomplishable with gimp. Simple image editing and stuff.
>These are people who would balk at the idea of downloading a song illegally or pirating most software, but somehow Photoshop was different.
Because the moral compass suggest Adobe is big, evil greedy for profit company so stealing from them makes you feel less guilty. And since everyone is doing it and it becomes a norm then why not do it?
