I agree with most of that but...

So you think.  Almost every commercial Cinema 4D plugin is available in cracked versions online or on CD (! buy now!).  These are 'professional', but not like $900+ most of them.  These are individual or small development companies here usually selling in the range of $50 to $500.  I've seen long lists of cracked everything from the simplest plugin to OSs and so on.  You haven't looked deep enough.

As I mentioned, my plugin is $150 (a lot of bang for the buck might I mention) and has been cracked since day 1 (v1.0.0).

M$ would make a profit if they had no piracy protection.  They are the TOP OS on the planet since like 1990 or prior.  They sell literally millions of copies (if not 100's of millions).  When you are much lower down, such predation hurts.  How about M$ puts more money into helping us guys avoid piracy instead of stuffing their bank accounts (how much is Billy G worth these days - a few pennies?)?

On Poser, remember that the Amiga computer went down for this reason - bad marketing and poor competitive design as the market was opening.  Think on it.

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, you blow your whole leg off.

 -- Bjarne Stroustrup

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