Comment on TechSpot can't help but sellout in their own editor picks
MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
It’s crazy to me that all these websites advertise pirated/stolen Microsoft keys and aren’t getting in trouble for it.
Comment on TechSpot can't help but sellout in their own editor picks
MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
It’s crazy to me that all these websites advertise pirated/stolen Microsoft keys and aren’t getting in trouble for it.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 months ago
The idea is that even if you’re using pirates windows, you’re still in the windows ecosystem, you’ll be more likely to pay Microsoft for other things. So in a weird way, yeah you didn’t pay for windows, but you also didn’t buy an Apple either, and now you’re using windows apps and programs.
Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
This was Adobe’s strategy with Photoshop. They basically let the piracy happen knowing everyone would learn and stick with their software.
ahornsirup@feddit.org 2 months ago
And it worked. Try finding any professional art/design jobs that don’t use Adobe.
MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 2 months ago
Seeing how trivial it is to circumvent that “DRM” it had to be intentional