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Adobe is suing clothing store chain, Forever 21, as it turns out that the retail outlet has been pirating Photoshop software, according to the new lawsuit filing. The company is now facing serious fines as a result.
The lawsuit was filed yesterday in a California District Court. This wasn't a one time pirating affair though, the store is accused of pirating 63 instances of Adobe software, including Photoshop, Acrobat and Illustrator.
According to the court filing, Forever 21 continued to pirate Adobe software even after being contacted about it: “continued their infringing activities even after being contacted by Adobe regarding the infringement.”
Adobe has documented each instance of piracy, although it is not known how the company managed to trace it all back to the retailer. Adobe even has registration numbers and dates for each instance.
Adobe is accusing Forever 21 of “wilful, intentional, and malicious copyright infringement”.
If Adobe succeeds with this lawsuit, then it will be seeking money for lost revenue and ‘additional damages'. Adobe had moved versions of its software to the cloud back in 2013, which did spark an uprise in pirated versions of the software.
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KitGuru Says: It is always a little odd to see big companies also pirating software. It just goes to show how common piracy is these days.
Source: The Verge
Maybe if it was cheaper more people would buy it.
There’s no point in making it cheaper if a Company use the software to make profit several times over the price of buying the license. They should use that profit to pay for it in due diligence.
Additional damages ? Get over yourself Adobe.
I wonder which version of the Adobe package they were pirating.
Cry some more Adobe. 90% of people are pirating your software because it’s so damn expensive. Granted a business should buy it, and what damage did this do to you? None, money hungry ****
Jeez, leave it to adobe. Of course they have to pick on a remote company like that because its probably the only company they will ever win against. I dont believe there is a way to track piracy unless you have connections to law enforcement or an ISP so you can resolve the IP addresses, correct me if I am wrong..
Cheaper? It’s actually really cheap! Sure, pre-cs6 it was pretty expensive. But with CC you can get licenses for an extremely affordable price lol… 10$ a month for photoshop? Idk about you, but I can afford 120$ a year for photoshop -.-
It’s 10$ a month… LMAO
One thing is private usage , paying 10 dollars a month or 700 dollars for a software you hardly use and when you do just to play around is not a good deal and everyone pirating it for private use should be accepted , but then Phtoshop is professional software … honestly i don´t care how many private individuals pirate photoshop just to improve their holiday photos or to build a logo for their startup , but established companies and commercial business is a whole different story , a highly profitable company pirating software is despicable , and Adobe should get every last cent they demand.
They don’t care if a single person pirates their software. Infact they would prefer you pirate it instead of using a free alternative such as GIMP. That way, they are used to using that software and a company will then be forced to purchase it for all their employees to use.
It is accepted. They prefer you pirate it for private use than use a competitors software. That way their employer will have to buy it so that their employees can be more productive. Same with Office and even Windows OS itself.