I realized , Piracy brings chaos to your life as a side effect (apart from the ethical debate).
Being pirated (and hence free) , we d/l tons of songs, pdf, software .... that ultimately just add up to the space in hard drive.
The Cost of products still remain a debatable topic, but being into software industry, I feel there exist sufficient free and legal options for the masses.
Saying no to piracy and returning to good ol' days of selected few.
- Started buying songs rather than downloading via questionable sites (6 rs a song is not a bad deal)
- Switched to Open Office (till I get my office 2013 shipped )
- Started using VS Express for personal use(more than enough for now)
- Photoshop gone, LightRoom purchased, Photoshop CS is supposedly free* so keeping that for now.
- eBooks are next :)
- Movies are all gone thanks to a recent hard drive crash :)
- Said good bye to torrents the day btjunkie died.
Update 2020: Office License, Photoshop License - Check. VS Code is superb, VS Community edition is fairly extensive, No Pirated e-book since 2013
Feels good to have less and relevant content.
Say No To Piracy, You'll feel good and In Control
*http://www.techspot.com/news/51316-adobe-offering-creative-suite-2-for-free-but-they-didnt-mean-to.html
http://lifehacker.com/5973750/download-adobe-creative-suite-2-including-photoshop-and-illustrator-for-free
http://www.adobe.com/downloads/cs2_downloads/index.html