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PC Software Piracy Decreases Worldwide, But Remains Rampant (torrentfreak.com)

Posted by msmash on from the closer-look dept.

An anonymous reader writes: A new report published by The Software Alliance shows that usage of pirated PC software is decreasing worldwide. While this is a positive trend for the industry, piracy remains rampant in many countries. This includes Libya, where a massive 90 percent of all software is used without permission.

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  1. Re:Meh by cayenne8 · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's my dilemma. Photoshop is the bad one with this. I absolutely refuse to go with their subscription based model. I'm not going to pirate their product- I'll go with a rival product instead, despite being inferior.

    Give Affinity Photo a try. I really like it and the engine is faster than PS.

    If you know PS, then AP won't take you long to adapt.

    It came out for Mac first, but there is a windows version, they have a trial I think, give it a look.

    I"m also working with On1 RAW to replace Lightroom since Adobe took it CC *rental* too.

    So far, i find it really great and with luminance masking in the RAW workflow...amazing.

    For video, it appears Davinci Resolve 15 will chip away at Premier....

    I refuse to rent my software at this time too...and while adobe is raking $$ in the stock market....this rental move has given their competitors room and incentive to develop and they are coming up with REAL I think Adobe's CC move next, is to more and more push and someday maybe 'force' your content to be kept on their cloud.

    The LR CC and classic thing seems to be paving the way for that.....I wouldn't like that.

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