The truth is that Adobe’s move to cloud-based distribution does effectively crack down on some piracy, but not from a technological perspective, rather, an economic one. The main impetus for Adobe’s move new Photoshop CC – a cloud-based software (not service, to be clear) – is to deter software piracy by having it only available and distributed online. By pirating Photoshop or other photo-editing software, the only message we send out is that we don’t actually care about them at all. Besides, they make more than enough cash off people and little freebie won’t hurt them, right? Wrong. Yet here we are, expecting the art industry to be taken seriously, but have no compunctions of “borrowing” software from a torrent because we want to save a few bucks. A newspaper or website wants to give us a credit line in lieu of payment because it’ll give us more “exposure.” We raise holy heck when a concert promoter offers to comp our tickets instead of providing a check for services rendered. Taking pictures of a new band for their next gig is seen as doing you a favor. We all get irate when asked to shoot a friend’s wedding for next to nothing.
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