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most people i know who use pirated software buy it after they prove to themselves that it's worth the cost. also, lots of people won't shell out the cost for titles from adobe or macromedia before they know how to use them, which makes a lot of sense to me, honestly. i'd be pissed if i bought illustrator and then later decided that corel draw was a better product, or easier for me to use to get the results i wanted. you can't take software back to the store.

i really think shareware is a pretty decent approach, but it should be shareware like mIRC where you get nagged about once a month, and can use it fully for as long as you like, until you're ready to buy it. companies could figure out a way to keep track of your usage and could up the nag rate if you run an app 5 times a day for 2 years without paying for it, or cripple it or something. but if you just use photoshop once a year when you redo your website, is it worth the price? hardly.