Pirated copies of Final Cut Pro may infect your Mac with crypto-mining malware, https://www.macworld.com/article/1522125/jamf-threat-labs-pirated-final-cut-pro-cryptojacking-malware.html.

I thought, clearly wrongly, that pirated music software was the choice of money stuck young people. By the time you could afford a Mac, you were more mature and ethically stable, and basically, grown up. I stopped using pirated software when I got my first mortgage and grew up, on my pc. It was a shock to discover cubase and other popular sofftware didn't crash frequently when you used the rarer facilities the pirates never bothered to crack. On starting with macs, things got even more adult and spending money increased.

Is this not like buying a Range Rover, and producing biofuel in your shed? You just have to ask why?

Argggg! Why would anyone use a pirated copy of FCPX? I has got to be the most reasonably price software. One time purchase with no subscription!

and you can get DaVinci Resolve for free so why bother?

I thought, clearly wrongly, that pirated music software was the choice of money stuck young people. By the time you could afford a Mac, you were more mature and ethically stable, and basically, grown up. I stopped using pirated software when I got my first mortgage and grew up, on my pc. It was a shock to discover cubase and other popular sofftware didn't crash frequently when you used the rarer facilities the pirates never bothered to crack. On starting with macs, things got even more adult and spending money increased.

Is this not like buying a Range Rover, and producing biofuel in your shed? You just have to ask why?

It used to be the case with Apple software that there were no serial numbers to bother with , and besides the bundled software that came with every Mac , any other legitimate software you could buy could simply be installed on as many machines as you liked , hence it was commonplace for people to pass installer discs around their friends and share the good fortune .

Sadly , some third party software providers , such as those who could be supposed to work out of mud brick buildings , spoiled it all by adding passwords and requiring activation , even worse when they shut down the servers at a later date , so that even those who actually had spent a lot of money buying said software could no longer install it onto newer machines , or re-install if they were doing a rebuild .

I think you certainly value your software more if you have paid for it. Everything on my computers has been legit, and I even paid for WinZip with a purchased retail copy back in the 1990s.

It's good to be absolutely above board.

Andrew

Yes , you certainly do .

However , in days gone by , at work we used to buy software with up to 5 licences , install on a couple of machines in the studio , then the three of us in the department would be able to install on our machines at home , which was fine as we genuinely used to take work home quite regularly .