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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
I was referring to Photoshop, Illustrator and PageMaker, which Adobe sold... but which were easy to circumvent security and share around. That's exactly what people did, and the market became saturated with pirated products. When Adobe locked down the products, everyone was so used to the products that they (grudgingly) paid rather than go without or use competing software like CorelDraw and PhotoPaint.
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Everyone? I haven't checked if there are cracked copies out there of the current versions of the software, but I'm sure that at least the older versions should still be available.