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Originally Posted by dyna mo
*adobe has profited off of pirated software* is an internet myth
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No it's not... Years ago Adobe said at a Seminar that Piracy paved the way for them.
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Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head
Adobe made hundreds of millions through sales.
Piracy doesn't pay anything.
Paint Shop Pro is not in the same league as Photoshop.
And we're not just talking about the image editor, but usually the entire Adobe Suite.
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Way back about 15 years ago, Paint Shop Pro was the leader and kicking Photoshops teeth in. Everyone was using Paint Shop Pro on a PC, even after Photoshop came out of Beta. People didn't rush out to buy it.
Then the piracy started, Photoshop hit the piracy market shortly after Beta like no other software in History. It took about 3 years for Photoshop to crush the entire market...
They didn't only crush them in sales, they crushed them by 1000x in users. When you have a reach that big, you get more sales than everyone, you get more of everything because it's what everyone is talking about. And it created a massive sub-market for products, like plugins and actions and 100k's of tutorial sites, spreading the brand. Piracy is also not perfect and not without bugs...
Piracy is also the fastest and cheapest way in the world to reach the global market, and do it without every direct marketing anyone.