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How did you get all those copies in the mail?

MisterMister

Sometimes when I order Photoshop books from Amazon, eBay, or Half.com I'll find a burned copy of either version 7 or 8 in the books. I don't know why they send these things with the books. It's weird. I just chuck the disc in the trash compactor and forget about it.

Chester

how did you come to that conclusion? [bustagut]

Bacardi

Be happy, my friend. Here, in Absurdia, a full licnce to Photoshop costs about 1000 Euro (1100 US Dollar).
Even upgrades are similarly expensive.

Same goes for all software...

ladyfinger007

...and hardware... The US thinks that we are rich... or not aware of the pricces they have...

Tracy

I wish that I could afford the upgrade myself, but then again I am happy with 7.01. Soon enough I will have no choice for in my line of work I can't always be writing about outdated software. I am a Corel Draw user and am curious as to how Illustrator works, similarities, differences, I know it comes with the CS upgrade, which to me is a value. 500+bucks, I am afraid I just cannot be THAT good for Santa!

I went through the same thing on Ebay, with all of these offers but never was sent any disks, just didn't answer the mails. Fools I tell ya, fools!

p1nk_st4r

so wait let me get this straight...

you throw away free copies of a $700 program?

ever think of giving them to someone who needs it?[/b]

MisterMister

Dude, the whole point of throwing them away is cause I don't want to get caught using pirated software - so why would I give them to other people? lol

It's a federal fine, don't ya know?

Joy Foraker

Photoshop, like other graphic systems, is getting more and more expensive and upgrades are becoming limited to one year back. Same with Macromedia. I have Flash 4 and a current upgrade is not possible for that version. Plus the older versions are not being supported by their companies.

Those of us in the design business, who must have all these programs, well... we have inadvertently assumed an expensive annual overhead. If we don't play the game, we lose our original investment. [upset] [upset] [upset]

As for Macromedia, I have upgraded to MX but I really perfer using my copy older version, I just needed protect my investment. \:] \:] \:]

I think these prices eventually force one to consider other ways to obtain the latest software through file sharing or day use downloads. Believe me I'm not endorsing this. Everything I own is legal and paid for but I think the manufacturers should be aware that they are sewing the seeds for a active blackmarket industry.
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8)) Hey Rick, I like this new icon. 8))

MisterMister

Absolutely, Joy .... I don't think there's any reason Adobe/Macromedia/Corel need to charge the prices they do. I think if they charged less then more people would be apt to buy the program.

However, no matter if they were giving it away for free, there are still going to be people who will try to bust the code and hack a program.

For instance .... there was a crack running arounf for Photoshop CS, but Adobe made it so the keyboard shortcuts wouldn't work if you hacked it .... now they have a hack for that, too.

Personally, I see no need why a program has to be over $300. I mean, seriously, how much do Adobe employees make?

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