Brian Walters wrote: >Quoting Rob Studdert <[email protected]>: > >> If their pricing structure for the previous non-cloud applications >> were reasonable over the years then they would likely have had far >> lower piracy rates and a significantly higher purchase volume. > >Agreed. At least the CC Subscription price is affordable. Wonder how >long that will last?
The thing is that the people who were using pirated copies of Photoshop, etc. were, for the most part, people who would never have bought it if they couldn't get it free professionals overwhelmingly buy their software legally. So no matter how many pirated copies were in circulation, Adobe was really losing very little revenue from piracy. I think the subscription model, far from being an attempt to reduce piracy, is a result of Adobe *realizing* that ending piracy would have very little effect on their bottom line and looking for an alternative way to increase revenue. -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- 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.
