Re: FN-FORUM: activation code for photoshop

date posted 19th August 2007 15:52

On Sunday 19 August 2007 16:57:04 Alain Williams wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 01:26:36PM -0000, Mike A wrote:
> > 1. Software theft is theft of property.
>
> Wrong. It is an infrigement of copyright under the Copyright, Designs and
> Patents Act 1988:
>
> http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1988/Ukpga_19880048_en_3.htm#mdiv17
>
> It has some of the practical effects as theft as opposed to sale: the
> 'owner' does not get some of your money.

He / she / it wouldn't anyway. It's actually the competition that loses out.
In this instance for example our OP was clearly never going to be shelling out
650 dollars for Photoshop; but he *might* cough up 59 dollars for Paintshop
Pro.

IMO the ease with which people were able to "borrow" the office Office
disks back in the early 90s worked enormously in Microsoft's favour.