Yeah.. happened to me way backa round poser 6 ish... thats how I got started in 3d.  A friend basically gave me a Rig and told me to check out this program...

It was a bit of a painfull process purging all the runtimes once I realised how things work with content creators vendors etc.  Made worse by the fact that I bough and installed a bunch of stuff before I started trying to purge.. plus freebies.. oh so many freebies... Sometimes I still go looking to see if I have this product that I remember using once... oh thats right... not mine shoot :(  and a lot of the time not available anymore.

Its tough to kiss goodbye a lot of content but when you consider that the people making the content are just ordinary folk and not 'some big company'  Its not hard to see the right thing to do

 

Quote - Just as a side-note: wonder how many over at CG Society actually Puchased their copy of 3DSMax or Maya or... :blink:

Again, doesn't make it right. If this person had been a true pirate, he would have kept quiet about his mode of acquiring the software, don't you think?

Go ahead: flame me if you want, but you'll have to agree that computer purchase with softare included happens a lot.