It's not worth the effort for Adobe. There's little piracy of their consumer apps(dunno how many legit copies of Elements 2 I've got, at least 3), and they only care if businesses pirate the pro apps (Since that is most of their revenue).
In fact I'd suspect that the rampant piracy may actually help Creative Suite sales to a limited extent (Baen Books found this to be true with giving away eBooks in their Free Library and Book CD's). You'll note the aggressive pursuit of Piracy is primarily done by companies which sell overpriced software into the consumer market (Think Windows here, no way is it worth the hundreds of dollars it costs for a legit non-OEM copy, vice Apple's sanely priced boxed OS) -Adam Tom C wrote: > I agree Bill. What puzzles me is that Adobe does not aggressively prosecute > all the file sharing sites and bogus shady resellers of their products. > Other big software names are also pirated, no doubt to the tune of tens of > tousands of copies per day. > > I wonder why the company does not pursue. Is it simply more expensive to > attempt to prosecute than it is to ignore it, or have they raised the price > enough to cover what they figure are their losses? > > > Tom C. > >> From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: OT: Photographer Being Sued >> Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 11:25:57 -0600 >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Rebekah" >> Subject: Re: OT: Photographer Being Sued >> >> >>> I think software copying is entirely different - if I were to copy >>> some software and give it to you, the company that made it would lose >>> money because you didn't purchase it from them. >> I've heard (and also read here) the excuse that it's to expensive for me to >> buy, so if I don't steal it I won't have it, and therefore the company >> (Adobe seems the common target) isn't losing anything, since I wouldn't >> have >> bought it anyway. >> >> William Robb >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
