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by DaiPlusPlus 977 days ago
> but students are particularly impacted

That's a failure of the product/marketing planners then - there's a great deal of positive value that comes from offering free (or heavily discounted) plans for verified students, for example. There's a reason why Adobe and Autodesk tolerate, to a certain extent, unlicensed/piracy of their tools, especially in markets where even their educational-discounts are still too expensive for many to afford.