Will software as a service end up killing software piracy?

Will software as a service end up killing software piracy?

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No.

Yes

maybe.

maybe not

Of course not, retard.

Nope

You shouldn't pirate software.

I pirated Photoshop CC

Any product I need that's only offered 'as a service' is getting pirated, fuck that cancer.

why would you pirate anything adobe related ? Their stuff is cheap

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sorry to know that you're living in a third world country.

sometimes

i sure am chaim

Not a chance, man has been copying shit for a millennia

yes

>subscribe to horseshit for $500 a YEAR for the rest of your life
>vs
>free forever with no inconvenience
Hopefully it'll end up killing proprietary software altogether.

I think we'll see a migration towards open source software, people will become more proficient with google's services vs office 365, and GIMP vs PS

easiest photoshop to pirate.
>Get offline installer,
>use keymaker key,
>block adobe authentication servers,
>open photoshop and use it/update it like the original

not that hard.

I would just like to Interject for a moment, what you're referring to as "software as a service" is in fact Service as a Software Substitute, or as I've recently taken to calling it, SaaSS. SaaSS is not software unto itself, but a means of using a service implemented by someone else as a substitute for running your copy of a program. Concretely, it means that someone sets up a network server that does certain computing tasks—for instance, modifying a photo, translating text into another language, etc.—then invites users to do computing via that server. A user of the server would send her data to the server, which does her own computing on the data thus provided, then sends the results back to her or acts directly on her behalf.

The computing is her own because, by assumption, she could, in principle, have done it by running a program on her own computer (whether or not that program is available to her at present). In cases where this assumption is not so, it isn't SaaSS.

These servers wrest control from the users even more inexorably than proprietary software. With proprietary software, users typically get an executable file but not the source code. That makes it hard to study the code that is running, so it's hard to determine what the program really does, and hard to change it.

With SaaSS, the server operator can change the software in use on the server. He ought to be able to do this, since it's his computer; but the result is the same as using a proprietary application program with a universal back door: someone has the power to silently impose changes in how the user's computing gets done.

Thus, SaaSS is equivalent to running proprietary software with spyware and a universal back door. It gives the server operator unjust power over the user, and that power is something we must resist.

Lightroom/Photoshop is only $120 a year.

Plus it get extensive upgrades.

If you pirated lightroom 2016 at the start of the year, it wont work with many modern cameras.

I just wanted to just it to make memes for this shithole that's fine

Yes.

I pay for my sister Creative Cloud license, as she is a student and we are in a third world country they charge me 20 bucks a month.

>If you pirated lightroom 2016 at the start of the year, it wont work with many modern cameras.
nigga what? how hard can it be just drag the pictures into the program it's all jpeg anyway

>jpeg
>not shooting raw

Why even use lightroom if you are gonna shoot .jpeg?

bc my cybershot doesn't have filters preloaded on it

the adobe camera raw updater doesn't care.

Why the hell are keygen and patch executables always precompiled? Why not .py scripts? I want to see what it's doing so I know I'm not installing malware.

>Piracy
Like on the high seas?

The developed world is moving further towards a service-based economy in every sector, it's inevitable that eventually almost everything will be offered as a service. Additionally, with the middle class growing bigger and/or wealthier in most developed and developing countries, people have more disposable income and as such it'll become more worthwhile to just purchase a cheap subscription for software instead of paying outright out the ass for it, or instead of pirating. Just look at Netflix and Spotify.
By having a good enough value proposition at a low enough price, people will cough up the money because their time is more valuable than spending minutes or hours downloading tv shows and movies, that half the time are terrible 720p or SD copies anyway.

Pack it up boys thread's over

the scene has competing groups that try to get out their crack first and have it work the best

I am more bothered by the community brogrammers that make tools and mods for games and shove tons of social media shit into it and dont release the source

I don't know, can you repeat the question?

youtube.com/watch?v=wI-eRDrN3-4

>social media shit
Haha people do that? Fuck

Because you are installing malware.

I fucking knew it

facebook twitter and donate buttons at the bottom of the program, or if you are lucky just at the main screen.

Hey also do scene groups sign their releases so downloaders know they're not installing anything that's been tampered with?

>Why the hell are keygen and patch executables always precompiled? Why not .py scripts? I want to see what it's doing so I know I'm not installing malware.
Because fucktards like you will run them anyway.

If you had half a brain you'd have a virtual machine, disconnected from the network, to run that cancer in.

How fucking new are you?

Another question. Where can you find the scene groups that crack software?

No shit I do that, it's just really inconvenient to have to do everything inside an airgapped VM

Yes. Here's why.

As physical offline products stop being produced and more people begin using online versions, those are the true costumers companies cater to so the demand for offline versions will fade and with it so will the product.

Only some of us will hoard this software and with torrent and other open mediums to pirate coming under more and more scrutiny offline versions will suddenly be at the hands of a few, who aren't willing or able to supply the rest of us leeches and with good reason. We better start hoarding software now.

>No shit I do that, it's just really inconvenient to have to do everything inside an airgapped VM
That's the cost of unlicensed software.

Who's that red, white, and blue bimbo?

Piracy is a meme.

t swift

Not if you force the app not to connect to the servers to check if your free trial is up, or some other stuff.

Trials are done client side, dick lips.

Yes

opposite
only the biggest cucks are happy renting CC when it updates so glacially