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Originally Posted by Ciderpress
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If one wants a piece of software bad enough, one might pay for it eventually. If that piece of software is on offer for free, you will obviously get it for free instead. The company then doesn't get as high a return on the investment of money and labor and time they put up to develop the software in the first place. If they don't bring in money, they can't keep making photoshops.
It's not really complicated at all, rationalizing software piracy only works if there's some magic genie who keeps developing and making new software for free. It might kinda feel like that's the case sometimes, but it's not.
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Well most “free trials” are also with limited features to prevent the one-users like me from exploiting them
But either way, I can’t imagine it being completely legal to essentially steal a digital product for personal use. Like are you going to get in trouble for it? Probably not. But if some mega-company like Nintendo wanted to after you with their army of lawyers over it, I’m sure it’s not 100% legal
But I not super versed in law so….