Adobe wanted to be pirated, they priced their product out of reach of everyone except professionals. The only way they got new users was people who grew up using cracked copies.
If they wanted to sell to everyone they would have lowered the prices decades ago. For the longest time it was cheaper to fly half across the world to the US, buy Photoshop and fly back to Australia than it was to buy the software here.
Adobe wanted to be pirated, they priced their product out of reach of everyone except professionals. The only way they got new users was people who grew up using cracked copies.
If they wanted to sell to everyone they would have lowered the prices decades ago. For the longest time it was cheaper to fly half across the world to the US, buy Photoshop and fly back to Australia than it was to buy the software here.