Comments on: Piracy – Adobe’s Best Friend?

By: John

John — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:15:40 +0000

I pirate Adobe software. There. Someone had to say it.

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 11:46:08 +0000

I agree that adobe price’s are way to high. It is a good idea for adobe to focus some of it’s products to students at a discounted price because it will lead to further purchases from adobe of their products. Also i believe adobe would not be as sucsessful as it is now without piracy! Not that I think piracy is a good thing though. I also agree with Demiurge’s idea because that will allow people to have the software legally, yet also not kill the budget.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Sat, 30 May 2009 07:00:22 +0000

Yeah, the prices are ridiculous. However, now there are sites, like Academic Superstore, which sell various softwares, like Adobe, Autodesk, and Apple at discounted prices (ex. Maya is $2,000 regularly, but only $400 if you send in proof that you’re a college or high school student). Ad0be should definitely look into discounts.

By: Dim Wit

Dim Wit — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:41:23 +0000

What? Are you NUTS?! Adobe WANTS to go out of business and it’s obvious! Adobe almost never allows trial copies or ANY copies of their software to be used without first being payed for (although there are certain exceptions like Flash or Reader). Therefore, I say let’s HELP them! Let’s help Adobe go out of business by enforcing Adobe’s requirement for payment for software that might not even be used. Let’s help Adobe and any one else so stupid as to adopt this pay first “policy” since they don’t see any value in allowing software to be used on a trial basis or even for free. I mean if they can’t see the value in someone potentially buying their products five times over as you have illustrated then perhaps narrow minded vendors like Adobe SHOULD be out of business! So let’s all HELP Adobe by helping ENFORCE their (and anyone else’s) legal rights!

By: Demiurge

Demiurge — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:42:44 +0000

Why don’t software companies take a hint from MMO games? Why not sell the full versions of software for a nominal fee say $45.oo then charge a smaller fee monthly, yearly or whatever for upgrades or the right to use the software? I don’t know about you but I could definitely afford a “pay-to-play” model for Adobe software and would not mind at all paying $12.00 bucks a month to keep using it and when my total hits the “real” price of the software at market price $1700 or so just charge me for the small upgrades and hit me again with the big $45 dollar “expansion pack” every year. I think they could make more money this way. Lord knows how much I’ve spent on a video game that did nothing but take my money and time at least with this software you can make money. Jut my thoughts.

By: Solomon

Solomon — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:41:48 +0000

I liked your article, thank you!
I totally agree with your theory. The reason I decided to search about the issue is the exact same reason. I think Adobe cs4 is very easy to crack, from my experiance, and it got me thinkign if they did that on purpose. How can this be? This must be so because they meant to make it? I don’t think a corporate as big as Adobe would make sich a silly mistake.

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By: Ay Uaxe

Ay Uaxe — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 15:34:12 +0000

If Adobe priced their products in the realm of reality, more people would buy them directly from Adobe. People use questionable software because the cost of purchase directly from Adobe is prohibitive, sometimes even in a business environment. At some point, Adobe has fully amortized its investment in Acrobat 6 or 7 and should make it available for nominal cost to those who can’t afford or don’t need 8. Greed is more the problem than piracy.

By: Onecore

Onecore — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:01:31 +0000

Hi alex nice post.

I must say piracy will turn sometime into customers cause many people if they like product purchase it if they have any company setup or have atleast small buisness or freelance.anyway,it is working in their favour some way or other.

Borland discovered it much earlier and made turbo c++ in explorer edition which in turn reduced much piracy for them,now people who use their product buy it for the final pro product.which is what i think their method works with explorer editions.

take look at codegear and then tell me if adobe starts the same they will have benefits also.

By: Piracy - Adobe’s Best Friend? « GreenFloor

Piracy - Adobe’s Best Friend? « GreenFloor — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 18:50:34 +0000

[...] Devlounge | Piracy – Adobe’s Best Friend? A lot of big companies, like Adobe, complain a fair bit about piracy of their software, and who can blame them? It’s a huge loss of profit for them. At least, that is what they would have us believe, and that may be what they believe as well, but is that really the case? Posted by greenfloor Filed in Uncategorized [...]

By: Cayson

Cayson — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 04:34:55 +0000

(My website is not up yet)

I agree with you just like everyone else. Mostly at that first scentence in the last paragraph. I got blammed for pirating Adobe Acrobat Writer. WHAT?!? It does not even exist, but they gave me warning 1 of 3. On 3 my Internet is out.

Well adobe, I love you for your programs, and I hate you because of this incident and your outrageus prices! I hate you! I hate you! But I really really want you.

By: Jordan

Jordan — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:54:38 +0000

I actually wrote a paper on this exact topic… in high school. There have been 3 or 4 licenses bought for me by school and my employer since then.