piracy and companies figuring it out

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I'm more surprised that he couldn't find a working keygen. IIRC Photoshop is the most pirated software currently. If that many people are downloading it, there has to be a working one.

I have had much success with my "free" Photoshop, Illustrator, Corel Painter 10 and Manga Studio 4

I find it be akin to borrowing a CD or DVD or game from a friend

The software piracy issue goes round and round and round, and never seems to reach any kind of resolution. People who program for a living tend to want to be paid for their hard work, and people who can't afford packages like Photoshop CS4 tend to want it for free.

Solution:
If you're going to be a thief, learn how to be a good one. Otherwise you'll spend more time and money solving the problems your sloppy thievery creates for you than you would have if you'd just bought the product.
If you're making money off using the product, then pay for it. The product is a business expense, and at least in the U.S., business expenses are deductible on the business part of your taxes.

Also, take a look at Photoshop Elements, which costs $89 or $99, if you must use Adobe's product. It does most of what people want to do in Photoshop CS4. Or learn GIMP or another free tool.

IP is easy to understand, by the way. If you write a book or a blog, that's IP. Maybe you hope to make money from your book or blog. So what do you do if you discover that people are printing your material and selling it or trading it online without paying you anything?

Intellectual Property lasts ridiculously long time long after the original author is dead. Which is wrong. It can last up to over 100 years before becoming public domain. It's also the record companies who leech off artists for their own profit.

I can agree that our copyright laws need reform, because in many cases they are wrong-headed. But let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

The record company isn't selling you a physical CD, that is worth 25 cents at best. Any more than Microsoft is selling you a physical DVD. They don't care about the physical packaging any more than you do.

Agreed their business model has always been corrupt. Historically artists have needed them though and tend to be the type who wouldn't know how to fight them if their lives depended on it. The Internet is changing that, record companies are becoming an irrelevant middleman and that's being reflected in their annual reports these days. Eventually they will either change business models completely or disappear. I'm guessing that point is about 20 years out.

Agreed with the person who thinks copyrights (and patents) last too long. I think they should all be capped at 15 years and nonrenewable.

You'd be better off asking somewhere where people aren't so touchy about pirating, I don't care about piract, I've used pirated stuff before, as long as you don't stuff up and get caught it should be fine, but if your key has been blacklisted you could be in trouble. Perhaps take a look in the Registry for any keys that look like they may help.

Keep it quiet and pretend that you don't have a copy, or try to block anything that comes from Abode.

HOME TAPING IS KILLING MUSIC

Anyone remember that? Yeah? And do you remember the music industry dying? No? What a surprise!

Look, piracy isn't killing squat. The MPAA, RIAA, Adobe, the record labels, Microsoft, or WHOEVER the "victim" of the piracy is, are still f'ing massive corporations raking in BILLIONS. In fact, if you look at the actual stats, you'll see that both the music industry and the film industry have been increasing their profits year over year for quite a while now. Quite far from the whole "filesharing is EVIL AND WE CANNOT SURVIVE" propaganda they like to push.

The only reason the entertainment industry are making such a fuss about this is because they are NO LONGER NEEDED. Today, we live in a world where anyone with a computer and an internet connection can record their own music and have it ready to distribute to millions of people pracically instantly.

If you want all the facts on this, watch Steal This Film II. You can stream the whole thing on YouTube for free, it isn't copyrighted. 'Fact, here it is:
[YouTube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpXK8mDTiNg[/YouTube]

And hey, I wouldn't steal a car... But I would if I could download it

Get an older version that isn't hamstrung with online validation requirements.

Photoshop is vastly overpriced for what 90%+ of people need it for.

The crack doesn't work. Too bad. But what do you expect given the caliber of programmers who work on these things.

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To answer the original question--at a torrent site, I came across a Photoshop CS4 version that can work from a thumb drive. It goes through part of the routine of installing itself, but doesn't completely. You can use the program, save your work, and then close out of the program (without completing the installation).

Anyway, it works for me.

I have my own version of it.

Like with games, Im perfectly fine ripping off EA games and such, the smaller companies on the other hand, ill fork over the money.

As for CS4, I have it, semi-legitly (friend bought it, and im on it for a free ride, glad he bought multiple licences). And no, im not giving anything out :/

So it's OK to rob the rich, but not the poor?

And the medium companies? Do you only half steal from them? I bet thats a trick. How is it done?