I am glad that all of you are so dead against pirate software. Here in the UK I feel like a lone voice. As a freelance editor in London I work at many different companies & edit suites (nearly always Avid). I frequently find other editors add to their skillset by doing After Effects on their own laptops while they edit on their employers Avids. I always make a point of asking them if they bought the After Effects software - and I have yet to meet ANYONE who paid for it. It makes me really cross - as someone who only buys legitimate software, how can I compete with that? I have told producers that this is happening and they are not interested as they get this extra work for free. And we are talking about major corporations. Grrrrrrrr
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--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Jeff Krebs wrote:
>
> This is a pirate site posing as a legitimate Avid reseller. The software I
> sell is on there too.
> It's among hundreds of other software developers being ripped off. What
> this individual (or group) does is sell cracked software posing as a legit
> store. Basically, they steal the software and resell it to the unsuspecting
> user. There are a number of us (small software developers) who are hurt by
> companies using our software that they stole. Unfortunately, no software
> company in the world is safe from being cracked and unfortunately it's the
> reality we live in, our compliancy firm is continuously busy catching and
> taking legal action. It's up to the ethical users and companies to only
> purchase legal software from authorized resellers or the developers
> themselves.
>
> Please - only support compliant software within your company and report
> piracy.
> ...enough said.
> cheers
> Jeff
>
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