I understand that it's agitating. But does an artist go out and steal their canvas and art supplies? Or ask to pay for less simply because they are only starting out?
Yeh if you enjoy working with Adobe apps you pay for them. It wasn't a good business model to allow people to buy the software outright. This really opened the door to piracy.
Now the business model has made it cheaper for the individual on a yearly basis. And it's reduced piracy.
Yeh - you have to pay per App or for a yearly subscription.
But I don't go to a gym for free - I go either on pay as you go scheme or a yearly membership.
I pay for public transport, on a pay as you go scheme or as a weekly/monthly/yearly ticket.
I really don't understand why people are opposed to paying for a service.
If you really love it - then you have to come up with the cash to pay for it.
It's a really simple model - and there's different payment options.
Yes, again I'm not disagreeing with you but although stealing is stealing (there's no two ways about it), there is a huge difference in using illegal software and an artist physically going into an art store and stealing their canvas and art supplies. While the result is the same, you are far less likely to find an artist stealing from a store, for obvious reasons. And no, they would not ask to pay less, the logical thing to do would be to go elsewhere, search online, basically do whatever is necessary to find their required supplies at a reasonable fee that is affordable to them.
I believe it has only reduced piracy temporally due to the public not being aware of ways around it. As I said before, I much prefer buying any product outright knowing I have paid the full price and don't have continual monthly/yearly payments to worry about. If not I would pay monthly for my TV, my Mac, my phone, a car etc etc. I am a fairly patient person that likes to be able to save up and once I can afford the 'said' product, pay for it in full. I have bills, rent, NI etc to pay monthly, I do not wish to add to that. The less monthly payments coming out of my account the better in my eyes. Even with my first car, I saved up for several months and bought it outright.
Gyms are irrelevant as they are luxuries. Public transport is ridiculously overpriced, but they are a necessity so there's nothing that can be done about that.
People aren't opposed to paying for a service, well I certainly aren't, I am more than happy to pay for necessary quality. It simply goes back to the individuals affordability.