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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16424659

Funny

I have seen the light!
Seriously though, just reinstalled windows, and discovered that I lost my photoshop 6 disc somewhere
Fortunately it is a program of such an age that its folder can be copied from one drive to another without going wrong, its plugins however are not, so I spend some time trying to hunt them down on the internet only to find that many of them are now unavailable...Having been replaced by more modern ones that wont work on this old program. Very briefly I check out the price of the current Adobe Photoshop, and learn that I can "upgrade" for $200!, difficult to find the full price, but its getting on towards $1000 now!...This is why Piracy is so popular. I have never made any money from owning photoshop 6, I do love mucking about with graphics, but not that much. Well fine if Adobe want to make their money just from well endowed corporations with more money than sense good luck to them. I am not going to be one of their customers and end up paying and paying again, every time they release a new version and remove support for the old. Hopefully I will find some old plugins on a file sharing site somewhere or try out some open source sw. It is clear that file sharing is under attack, bogus and infected files are being used in a deliberate spam warfare drive to make it a painful and frustrating activity.

"Torrents are great."

Of course many seeing that statement automatically assume pirating. But as we know, BitTorrent can be used for almost any file. For legislation like SOPA, or something similar, to remove that protocol would truly be throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

You should check out Gimp. It's free, and perfect for mucking about.

Yes I have gimp, it looks quire good, just got to relearn how to use it
I feel the future is open source, as these projects mature, commercial products will have a hard time competing with them and will be pushed even further towards supplying the cutting edge technology's which could well be a dangerous dead end for some of them.

Oh absolutely. I have been using paint.net for years, 50% of the time for simple photo or graphic work.

Blender is perfectly powerful, if you're willing to burn the hours on the learning curve.

Priced software is finding it harder and harder to stay monetarily justified in their relevant category.