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I quit pirating years ago when I started being able to pay for things. Just speaking for myself, price matters a lot. Nowadays if things are overpriced I just don't use them. But I didn't used to have the luxury of deciding what to use. Often I was forced to use a specific tool (such as Photoshop). If it was priced well I would pay. If not, I would pirate. The only exception here was movies because I've always despised the unreliability and terrible user experience of optical media.