Chias Reborn! - Original Trilogy

Author: PSYCHO_DAYV
Time: 19-Jan-2005 9:47 AM
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IT' NOT "PIRATED."

"I'VE GROWN TIRED OF ASKING, SO THIS WILL BE THE LAST TIME..."
The Mangler Bros. Psycho Dayv Armchaireviews Notes on Suicide

Author: TheSessler
Time: 19-Jan-2005 12:32 PM
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I didn't think you had to pay for a copy of photoshop unless you were using it for commercial purposes.

"I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings."

Author: Darth Chaltab
Time: 19-Jan-2005 5:08 PM
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In that case go ahead.

Author: Bossk
Time: 14-Feb-2005 7:59 AM
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Originally posted by: TheSessler
I didn't think you had to pay for a copy of photoshop unless you were using it for commercial purposes.

Copyright laws would tell you otherwise. Any copy that a person owns whether it is for personal or commercial use, has to be licensed. Now, if you are at work, a site license can be purchased in which case you need only buy one copy of the software and then pay a user license fee which is significantly less expensive than actually buying more copies of the software package. But sometimes you have to buy the licenses in bulk amounts which may not work out economically for a small company.

In terms of personal use, yes, each piece of software on your computer is supposed to be licensed (read "paid for") or you can be hit with some pretty big fines and jailtime. But only if they find you. Software, if you read the licensing agreement, can be installed on two computers only. So if you have two computers and one copy of Photoshop, by all means install it on both. But beyond that, you are in violation of copyright laws.

Apple started something kinda interesting with their release of OS X.3... you can buy a family license. In other words, every single computer within a household can use this one copy of OS X.3 for free. It costs maybe US$60 more than a single user licensed copy. And, depending on how many computers you own and how paranoid you are, it's not a bad deal.

Bear in mind that in this age of always-online broadband connections, tracking serial numbers on software is much easier. If you install another copy of any Adobe product on too many computers using the same serial number, they know it automatically as computers that are always online run the serial number against the home company's database each time it's launched. No way around this unless you disconnect your computer from the net.

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