pirated software users of photoshop!

[Ramya K]

Hey just read this i got from a blog! quite interesting!

...Since this article has been featured on Digg the number of voters for the poll has doubled. The result? Now 72% of Photoshop users are claiming to be pirates, and 65% of Lightroom users.

I stand by my numbers. With a population count of nearly 1000, I find it hard to believe that only the pirates are responding to the poll. My readers have been quite good at providing indicative data in the past (ie. 50% Canon users, 25% Nikon), and 500 of them first sounded off during the first week of the poll.

If anybody has better information from a more controlled survey, I’d be happy to take a look at it. Until then, you’ll have to take my results with a grain of salt and understand that there’s probably a 5-10% error tolerance.

What's your openion on this!

[AnaMika]

Well that's quite obvious thing that people use such pirated softwares since these softwares are so expensive!
They wont pay for it if the software is available at such a cheap price & it work's great for them!

[aftab1]

I use Gimp cause it is free..

[Barclay]

If your getting anything for free, why should we pay for it? whether it be a software or just anything

[Amol21]

If your getting anything for free, why should we pay for it? whether it be a software or just anything

Well i agree with you mate but can you think from the developers point of view?
What if everyone out there starts purchasing a pirated software's who will try to give quality software's then?

[Howitzer]

Definitely, I agree with Barclay. I am using AVG antivirus software and you can call it as pirated because I downloaded it from a site freely and am happy with it. Why to buy something if you are getting it without paying even a single penny?

[Amol21]

Hey you are talking about AVG & its a free software available in the market!
Now they have made it paid!
Well that the thing they popularised the product now they want to charge you!
& talking about photoshop its not a free software & you cant say if you are using a free software its like pirated software only!
You are confused i feel between the concept of free & paid software's IMO!