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- pprkut, on 05/15/2008, -1/+41Most people (including me) prefer to buy software over pirating it, its just that most of it is too expensive. Look at CS3, Office 08 etc. I buy what I can afford, and pirate what I cant. Its that simple.
- AustinGoodchild, on 05/15/2008, -4/+35I speak for the UK pirate population as a whole when i say, we'll try a little harder next year.
- gaza222, on 05/15/2008, -1/+23maybe wrong i haven't looked so someone may want to. This could correlate with a growth in FOSS.
- TheWriteGuy, on 05/15/2008, -1/+19Two likely explanations:
1) Many people and businesses now don't feel it's necessary to always upgrade to the latest version of whatever software they are using.
2) The improvement in quality of FOSS alternatives. - inactive, on 05/15/2008, -1/+15It's based on made up numbers that the Copyright federation will present as evidence that harsh laws work in the fight against piracy. This will encourage clueless politicians to introduce even harsher laws.
The reason I think biz software piracy is down is that businesses wont even install Vista on their PCs when it available free on P2P, so they're left with legal OEM copies of XP.
That and the success of FOSS. - redskyformiles, on 05/15/2008, -2/+14only the piracy they know of...
- colonelxc, on 05/15/2008, -0/+13That's all we ask.
- KaiUno, on 05/15/2008, -0/+10Eh... yeah. Sure. Whatever.
- solid12345, on 05/15/2008, -1/+11The thing with products like Adobe CS3 though is if you are running a business, price is no excuse. You can write it off your taxes and it is the cost of doing business just as buying equipment and paying utilities is a cost as well. It just becomes easy to "justify" it in your mind to use a pirated copy because you can't bootleg gas or a vehicle if your business requires you to drive alot.
- RandeKnight, on 05/15/2008, -1/+8Of course, the statistics are rather dodgy to start with.
They aren't based on randomly searching X000 PCs and seeing what's been pirated, it's based on comparing what software producers have sold compared to what they _think_ they should have sold.
Meaning that this years made up number has changed compared to last years made up number. Yup, big news. - AzureRise, on 05/15/2008, -0/+7Yeah, but this isn't the 80's.
- AustinGoodchild, on 05/15/2008, -2/+9Wait, most of the pirates probably forgot to fill in the BSA survey this year. Sorry guys.
- MScrip, on 05/15/2008, -2/+9Or maybe people have all they software they need. Once you've "acquired" CS3... what more do you need?
- Samtherocker, on 05/15/2008, -0/+6Actually, there is one situation where price is definitely an excuse for pirating professional applications: When you are a student.
I am a student of Architecture and we need to use the professional tools of our trade; Photoshop Extended, Illustrator and quite a few pricey CAD applications are all applications we use daily (and will eventually pay full price for).
But Adobe's 'educational' price for their design premium package is a joke; £245.58. Do they honestly believe that a student can afford this out of their own pocket? Do you? And Adobe are not alone in ridiculous educational pricing.
So yes, price can be an excuse.
Oh and just a quick note... No, this software is not supplied by my university (The University of Nottingham) and they do not offer any supplementary funding for it. - dsmx, on 05/15/2008, -0/+6I will make it my duty to make sure everyone I know with a computer pirates at least 100 GB of data next year.
- mickstephenson, on 05/15/2008, -0/+5What the ***** are you talking about?
- zimsters, on 05/15/2008, -1/+6In other non-related news, UK citizens are now 80% more able to prevent having pirated software detected on their machines.
- matx, on 05/15/2008, -0/+5plenty of open source software will do exactly the same as the core product could do for free.
- davidbond, on 05/15/2008, -0/+4For me it's because the freeware is so much less bloated.
- davidwasman, on 05/15/2008, -2/+6I am betting the decline is due to the rising use of Linux.
- zimsters, on 05/15/2008, -0/+5whoa, pass me the joint you're smoking!
- Xephyr, on 05/15/2008, -1/+5This is hardly a bad thing, it's good for the economy and open source alternatives will thrive.
- inactive, on 05/15/2008, -2/+7That's because the 'IT desktop' industry is in decline in general because there's simply lower technology advancement in the field: hardware - transistor size primarily - advances slowly nowadays; software has reached some technology milestones that are hard to be surpassed but also it's affected by slow transistor advancement.
In the 90s, 2 years meant a PC that is 4 times faster than the one before, nowadays, 2 years is a core 2 duo clock tweak. - gritta, on 05/15/2008, -2/+6Obviously it's due to open source and freeware, people haven't become "nicer".
- inactive, on 05/15/2008, -0/+3the one that fails lately?
- Tenoq, on 05/15/2008, -0/+3You still pay for it, even in your taxes. It's not exactly free. :p
- pprkut, on 05/15/2008, -0/+3I'd use Pixelmator (which I bought in MacHeist) all the time if it had a shapes feature. No, I'm not talking about a marquee tool.
And I am a student, and samtherocker is right, even educational pricing is far too high. - eleete, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2Open Source, When Windows become walls, it's time to Open them.
eleete.com - ICSU, on 05/15/2008, -3/+5The average Joe doesn't need CS3.
try Gimp - inactive, on 05/15/2008, -2/+6my computer cost me less then 500 so how do they expect the average joe to cough up that kind of a dough for just a photo editor. why cant they just release normal photo editor, hell i would be happy if they sell just plain old Photoshop 7 at a reasonable price. Nero does the same *****. i dont want a bazillion add ons. i just want the core product that they don't sell so i just pirate cause i don't want pay for the added crap ware.
- gkiltz, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2Because there is less software coming out of the UK that is worth pirating!
It is the same approach that the recording industry seems to have taken: Piracy will come down if we put out stuff so bad only a complete idiot would want it! - inactive, on 05/15/2008, -1/+3most people pirate out of exuberance and not because they actually want it. They get it because its there to be had. software piracy is down because most compulsive pirates have moved to movies, games and TV shows. hey should actually take a lesson from this because most of the pirates would never have bought the stuff they pirate in the first place so seeing them as a loss of business is stupid.
- synyster, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2looks like open source software is taking over the world :)
- JayKeaton, on 05/15/2008, -1/+2This is a bad thing for the RIAA and such, and publishers that like to excuse their shafting of customers on piracy. Maybe EA will have to now blame comic books or video game violence as the reason for being such cold bastards.
- gritta, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1*month
- pyrates, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1Open source use is just increasing thats all.
- heystoopid, on 05/15/2008, -1/+2Crap propaganda 101 , Josef G. awards an F minus for this rubbish !
- ncredblstrength, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1Make better software and increase prices! Then you will reach your piracy goals!
- LingNoi, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1This just in.. Ubuntu a UK based operating system shows signs of growth...
- LilBambi, on 05/17/2008, -0/+1Yes, I think you may be right.
- Tob3z, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1On the Decline! Guess we have some downloading to do
- solid12345, on 05/15/2008, -3/+6Honestly, CS3 Master Suite for all you get is actually pretty cheap, you get a raster photo editor, a vector graphics program, a fully-featured sound and video editor, internet content creation interface, all for 2,000 dollars.
If you had tried to buy all this stuff in the 80s you'd have to buy thousands worth of Chryon equipment, have a dark room lab, and a giant sound mixer, you'd be running into the 50-100 grand range if not more. - Shadow120, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1wat
- rDr4g0n, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1Ive been slowly replacing all the pirated software on my friends computers with free versions that do the same thing. I suspect the increase of support in the open source community is producing more free apps, hence less need for pirated apps.
- gaza222, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1not been mentioned yet so herer we go why would anyone waste a good cd/dvd or good bandwidth on vista.
Piracy down because the free market doesnt like the product. at least one of them anyway - REBELinBLUE, on 05/15/2008, -1/+2Oh a bad joke about British dental care, how original of you ;)
:p - buffyangel108, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1Nope, they're just better at hiding it ;)
- EON8, on 02/15/2009, -0/+0I support software piracy and net neutrality
http://www.eon8.com - djghosttrain, on 05/16/2008, -0/+0r.i.p. OiNK
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