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Really! Look at it this way: How many cassette tapes have you ever dubbed of music without thinking about it. Or recorded movies on video tape? If a person were to spend thousands of dollars on software that just sits idle on the computer most of the time and is obsolete in roughly a year who is getting the big bang in the rear-end?... the little guy trying to make it on a shoe string budget or the multi-million or billion dollar executives and their gangs. If these people would offer $30.00 instead of 500.00+ dollar programs for the just inquisitive average person I think everybody would pay with no qualms. Thats why I'm on this news group now. I have an old version PS4.0 that somebody gave me years ago when I first got the computer. To this day I have yet to make a penny off of it but only spent hundreds of dollars worth of my time trying to learn it. It's gotten out of date and is the only program that seems to give me no problems with my scanner and helps keep everything together. It is finally crashed for good I think so I wanted to know if someone else could send me a copy of a newer version, even your old one if you have moved on to a newer version, or direct me toward a decent area that I could get one. I haven't costed Adobe 1 penny since I've had it and I only recommended it to other people through the years... I was a walking advertisement for them. It' been good fun but I could never justify paying so much for it when I'm only a fiddling around now and then. I'll pay you thirty dollars instead to help you purchase your next upgrade I would be most appreciative if anyone could help. Please reply here or directly to my email if you wish to. This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Warm Wishes, Daim Frederick Maryland, USA

Try Photoshop LE. It was made for people who can't justify the cost of the regular version for their budget. Don't blame Adobe if you can't make money with PS. Hundreds of thousands of people do. Ross

Yeah, cars shouldn't cost so much either.. so I'll steal one.. grand theft auto... My wife would like a big diamond ring that I can't afford.. I'll steal it... theft My son wants a PS2 but they cost too much.. I'll steal one for him...  theft.. A guy in Maryland wants a copy of PhotoShop because he can't pay for it... I'll give him a copy... copyright violation... another form of theft. Quit whining and save for it like the rest of us.  I didn't like forking over the money any more than you but unless Adobe is paid the product will never get better.  There are tools and there are Great Tools.. you generally get what you pay for.  The last time I looked our economy was _base_d on capitalism. So, suppose you get your free copy of PhotoShop and develop some incredible artwork that could be sold... do you want to make money from your efforts? Or.. should we assume that you would be willing to let everyone on the planet rip you off?  I think not. Judging from your logic I assume you are in your late teens to mid-twenties but regardless of your real age it's time to grow up and live in the real world. There are no free rides. Jim

There are no free rides. Don't worry about my age. This is an argument that is almost a republican/democrat design: Should the haves continue to have considerably more than the have nots or should they be made to look at things in a more humble way and share with others a little more. A good unique car like a  Lamborghini has to be built each time by a whole crew of  mechanics, engineers and assemblers. Plus the materials have to be purchased, machined, formed and finished each time for every car. One isn't made and the some magical  golden button pushed to put out thousands at a time!! The programs already are done and the creators have already made considerable fortunes off of them. What does it take to copy a program on a disc, package and send it? How would you like it if John Denver charged you $500.00 to have your own copy of Rocky Mountain High to play? And it was bound to quickly self disintegrate so you almost had to get a new version every couple of years? Lamborghini's will last a life time if taken care of and most certainly will gain value as the years go on!!! Sorry, but your explanations smell of profiteering and human magottry. How about having some sort of timer that allows so many hours of use until another segment of time has to be purchased...sort of like a toll bridge or something? Why do so many people have to stay on one side of the shore because they can't afford the toll fee? The only alternatives are Ferries and tugboats that don't even let them make it all the way across before they start spinning in circles. Daim