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The Art of Photography => The Coffee Corner => Topic started by: Redcrown on October 23, 2017, 12:58:31 am

Title: A different worrisome state of software
Post by: Redcrown on October 23, 2017, 12:58:31 am

I Googled "Photoshop CC 2018". The majority of the hits, I'd guess 30% to 40%, were for cracks, hacks, torrents, and other ways to steal it.

But I guess that's OK. Since it surely has a a bug or two, nobody should have to pay for it.

Title: Re: A different worrisome state of software
Post by: Farmer on October 23, 2017, 02:44:36 am

Quote from: Redcrown on October 23, 2017, 12:58:31 am

I Googled "Photoshop CC 2018". The majority of the hits, I'd guess 30% to 40%, were for cracks, hacks, torrents, and other ways to steal it.

But I guess that's OK. Since it surely has a a bug or two, nobody should have to pay for it.

And around 99.5% of all those hits are automatically generated just to get you to go to the site - there's not actual hacks/cracks/torrents at them.  Of those dodgy sites, probably 50% are just plain trying to get malware (or worse) onto your computer.

Title: Re: A different worrisome state of software
Post by: RSL on October 23, 2017, 09:13:17 am

Exactly, Phil. It all just proves that Barnum's estimate was on the low side.