SELCOUTH
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I don't think it's immoral to pirate a product, but I will usually buy a product unless I have to subscribe to their service. Fuck Adobe and Microsoft for trying to go full on subscription. Won't be long before you have to subscribe to windows and get locked out of your PC when you miss a payment. I've bought many programs like FL Studio because I can purchase it once and be done with it. I don't mind giving them my money because although it's expensive they actually take the effort to fix bugs within their products and it mitigates any sort of risk I might be undertaking by pirating the product. Something like Adobe however? I'll absolutely pirate the shit out of it. Subscription based software is a terrible idea. I keep seeing all these obviously paid for "articles" about how it's going to be the best thing for the tech world, it's not. It's predatory practice and it completely fucks over small time content creators and developers because some of us have to use that money to keep the lights on. Chances are, you're going to be subscribed to that product for years and you're going to wind up paying double what you would have paid for if you'd just bought the product outright. It's highway robbery