So you want to pirate Photoshop CS3?

Anonymous_:

What is it with your fixation with piracy?

drewbee3:

You lot go on about piracy, torrents, porno in torrents...if you don't like it don't comment.

You don't condone piracy but you write about it? Go figure.

Sim:

I'm glad they've introduced student dicounting. $4,300 would have been a touch high -- might have had to sacrifice a night out to pay that -- but at $1,700, it's a bargain! I mean, even the most destitute student has a few odd thousand lying around their digs somewhere.

I just pity the poorest one or two percent of students who might *not* be able to afford this. I mean, someone who can't scrape up $1,700 for some software might not be able to afford such essentials as Champaigne with Strawberries for breakfast everyday! (Or even worse -- there's a chap in halls opposite from mine who was forced to switch from Don Perignon to *Bollinger* (the horror!) after blowing $25k on Microsoft content management server).

Ah, never mind, I'm sure it's not that bad; there's probably no student who can't afford this -- after all, £1700 is only 17 cigars lit with $100 bills, and me an my mates can get though that in a single night!

Ooh, gotta go -- Faberge eggs benedict for lunch at the student union cafeteria (again!).

- Simon

Nila:

Best reply I ever heard posted anywhere :)
lol.

Well done!

Anonymous_:

The Microsoft "It's Not Cheating" has made current academic pricing almost laughable.

I agree with you Simon - almost all the students I know would rather spend $1700 on rent and food instead of software that will probably cost more than their own personal computer.

Some of the better educational institutions have computer labs which students can use free of charge and have Photoshop and other software installed with a site licence. All the student needs to do is bring their own storage media.

Any suggestions on how to support educational institutions in improving such resources for their students?

isa:

It's been 283 days since Simon posted his comment, but I still had to say... I LOVE IT!

ROFL!!!

Good one Simon *thumbsup*

David Ozols:

a $1,700 price tag is enough to drive any uni student to piracy. A week or so of plundering Spanish gold and you might just afford it.

john:

When will dopey companies like M$ and Adobe ever learn: extraordinary high software prices encourage piracy.

stehakeem:

I had a really good read on this, very detail, and very useful information.
Thanks.

Ray J:

If you're a graphics design student and need the program, you take an extra loan out for it. Granted, it's a big loan, but if you're a student, you've already shelled out a few grand for a Apple Laptop so, what's another 1,300 gonna set you back in the long run? My mom and sister have both done it. It's the price of a higher education, I suppose.

HG:

I've purchased CS1 and CS2 academic, each time expecting improvements that would enhance my productivity. They've been disappointments. If Adobe didn't have the monopoly on graphics arts software I wouldn't use their products.

Now they're increasing the price of CS3 more than four times. All I can say is, it better be a vast overhaul and improvement over their past software.

I'll have to get CS3, if only because CS2 is soo slow on Intel Macs that it's useless. If CS3 sucks like its predecessors, then I'm writing Apple encouraging them to write a Photoshop killer.

school tech:

If Adobe want there product to be the tool chosen by all graphic designers, they should be giving it to students (time limited?) enrolled in apropriate courses and training them on its use. It makes sense to charge when the consumer can turn a profit or get entertainment from it, but supporting students is the best use of any advertising budget.

Rob Colburn:

good grief, try the beta first, you get it free for a few days. the word is you can find a way to extend the beta on that google too. then see fi the upgrade is productive. i've found they fixed half of the things that really grind my gears about adobe - simon's comment still standing.

and, if you really want to stop the monopoly go gimp, corel, use an out-of-date app. Or, be grateful there are large dev and support teams working to make a better product. I have no sympathy for companies not willing to shell out for the adobe apps they need, given the cost of in house apps. but, don't whine about adobe, given the market, it's *relatively* good.

prilvesh(FIJI):

QUOTE
"""Photoshop Extended includes high-end features that most people will probably never touch (targeted at 3D and motion graphics producers, architects, engineers, healthcare workers)""""""
i disagree with the the quoted sentence above coz
I BELIEVE THAT EVERYTHING IS FREE
now the why pay $3000 or thousands of dollars for adobes software when there is already opensource software out there which give the basically the same even more powerfully editting options for free i mean why would you buy something that expansive its maybe your either didnt explore your options well or basically go for the name brand ..now personally everything that adobe is offering right now is also available in the form of similarly open source software out there which basically grant you free license and grant you to do what ever you may want to do without any restrictions come on
who nees photoshop when you have got((the gimp) who needs adobe 3d (when youve got blender 3d)who needs adobe after effects when youve got(film gimp,jhashaka and zeistwein) theres alot of opensource software out there which do the same work as adobe products a nd are easy to use which cost $0.00 all that you have to do is research ..now with that cleared everyone can have access to cutting edge technology for free coz thats power (i rarely have the time to comment so forgive me for my english sentence structure errors i hope by reading this youll never have to pay for anything again and will choose open source and suppourt it iam a university student 19years old from fiji my dreams to visit apc magazine in australia someday and possible get work over there i plan to study computing sciencei just thought id let all my readers know ))thanks if you agree with me and need any help finding software which is free and suites your needs dont hessitate and email me:rockeveryone21@yahoo.com and i,ll be sure to help cheers everyone knowledge is power

Six:

So sucked in by the marketing. Thanks for the tip about GIMP!

Plegger:

GIMP is Adobe Opensource.

EVIL MARKETING. MUAHAHA.

How you like them apples, genius?

ITfrustrated:

The pricing, in a word, sucks, I am afraid Adobe has replaced Quark as the 900 pound gorilla on the bus. I bought CS2 Premium academic lisc. last August for $280 a seat now they want me to pay $350 a seat AGAIN for Design premium. Can you say monopoly?

bloatwaresucksass:

bloatware strkies back! biger slower ...worse
too bad macromedia got sucked by adobe's machinery :/
i still use photoshop 7

respondto:

I wonder if they can make a video of her with an umberella on a pirate ship.

The lesson of my story is that not all pirates are evil hackers because rihanna is hotttt.... If you dont like pirates or you dont like stupid hosting companies, host it yourself. Go xampp!!!!

Ano:

i wonder if adobe check, because it appars i download a lot of their trial software.....:)