Derrel
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Again, refresh my memory as to when I said this...........
...... but it seems to me that the people who are most vocal about the "evils of piracy" always end up being the ones with the most pirated crap on their computer.............
Personally, I do NOT care if you pirate software.
Arrgh.
Where's my rum?
The whole "piracy" thing is pretty much a non-issue for me. All of the software I use is open source and free (excluding one or two games). I just think it's funny that people who supposedly don't pirate anything get so worked up when piracy is mentioned.
Clone away. Perfectly legal. End of discussion.
You guys are getting way too defensive, lol. I wasn't talking about anything I've seen in this thread. Although some people seemed to be implying that it was illegal.
Like that. ^^^You do NOT have permission to remove the watermark. I strongly suspect the terms and conditions for using the trial software would cover that.
Plus its not a cool thing to do.
First sentence, boldly stating that you do not have permission to alter it. Second sentence, admitting that he didn't actually know whether you had permission or not.
I even said that the OP should go ahead and buy it. If he was only going to use this software once or twice - yeah, clone that **** out. If you're going to be using it on anything even resembling a regular basis, that would get old very fast.
EDIT
lambertpix,
The rest of your post (unquoted), I totally get and agree with. That was never in question. I fully understand why the watermark is there, and I would even say that it should be a very effective model. Who would rather clone watermarks out of hundreds of images when you could just prevent them from appearing in the first place for a small fee. A very small fee, once you factor in all that time that would otherwise be spent cloning crap out.
I would not pay $40 to process one HDR. I'm not really that much into HDR, but that's beside the point. If I was into it, I sure as hell wouldn't want to waste all that time cloning out watermarks when I could 'unlock' the software so easily.
My point is, cloning the watermark out does not make you a pirate.
And your example of delivering watermarked images to a client ... proofs, yes - watermark them. Proofs only need to be good enough for me to tell if it's 'print-worthy' or not. I personally would not pay for watermarked images (prints, or files meant to be printed by the end user) though.
Now to find out how I can "ignore" you. Have a happy life.