sotware piracy
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you think that a "few" users pirating software doesn't matter....it isn't a 'few', it is thousands...multiply that by the price of a single software package and the company loses hundreds of thousands of dollars each year.
anyone who believes that pirating software doesn't hurt developers and companies is niave to the point of being stupid, and lacks even the most basic professional maturity.
even just taking the number of respondants in this thread who think stealing is ok, and adobe has losts thousands of dollars.
hell, if just 20 nt users pirate adobe cs, that is over 10K the company lost. and, that is less than half of a percent of pirated software use in the world.
it's stealing. it hurts companies and fellow developers/designers.
if a company loses all it's money due to things like piracy (and it has happened before...game companies, software companies, development firms...etc) then not only does the company go under, but all those developers and designers are out of work.
beside that, how is it that people here can justify stealing software but whine like children about who ripped who?