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Originally Posted by Kevin342
Wow - that's the first time I've read a posting on Chief Delphi that encourages students to commit a crime (stealing software). Not exactly the "Gracious Professionalism" FIRST tries to promote.
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If you pirate software it's called a felony.
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somebody bit. ok.
That's right. Pirating software is a felony. As a fine, upstanding community, we shouldn't be pirating software. However, there ends up being about three options for software like Max when you leave your comfortable world of educational licenses.
1. Pay for it. Max is about $3500 last I checked, with the (optional) annual subscription program an additional $500-600 (maybe? I don't remember what mine was...) a year. It can be a reasonable expenditure, depending on the business you do.
2. Violate the end-user license (some people like to refer to this as "pirating," "theft," "stealing," or any number of other amusing phrases).
3. Find an alternative.
Guess what is the most common approach? I'll give you hint (par. 1 of my previous post.)
Guess what I'd rather have you guys do? (it's not a hard guess to make.
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Meanwhile, here's sum delicious copypasta:
http://www.turbosquid.com/Forum/Inde...ThreadID/30224
(Andy Rak is a very respected senior member of TurboSquid.)
http://www.coniserver.net/ubbthreads...e/0#Post469119
(Worth bookmarking.)