Comments on: Leveraging Piracy for Viral Marketing http://www.joemanna.com/blog/leveraging-piracy-for-viral-marketing/ Tech News, Social Media & Politics From a Geek Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:09:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: John Dowdell http://www.joemanna.com/blog/leveraging-piracy-for-viral-marketing/comment-page-1/#comment-6668 John Dowdell Tue, 15 May 2007 18:38:57 +0000 http://www.joemanna.com/blog/leveraging-piracy-for-viral-marketing/#comment-6668 Downloading unbranded/misbranded code is not a very prudent thing to do. Do a search on "botnet warez" to get the current context. Adobe Photoshop and similar tools are priced for professional usage, and sell well at those prices. For people who are not yet professional, there's tons of ways to bootstrap in... the Elements line, timed trial versions, freeware offerings, and soon online versions. If you're a student there are significant academic subsidies. You have to know and trust the code you run on your machine. We've got too many zombies on the network already. Get your code directly from the person who wrote it, and who can back it up if it's not what it claims...! jd/adobe Downloading unbranded/misbranded code is not a very prudent thing to do. Do a search on “botnet warez” to get the current context.

Adobe Photoshop and similar tools are priced for professional usage, and sell well at those prices.

For people who are not yet professional, there’s tons of ways to bootstrap in… the Elements line, timed trial versions, freeware offerings, and soon online versions. If you’re a student there are significant academic subsidies.

You have to know and trust the code you run on your machine. We’ve got too many zombies on the network already. Get your code directly from the person who wrote it, and who can back it up if it’s not what it claims…!

jd/adobe

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