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Why do people use 60/90/120 days licenses from Promotions?
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<blockquote data-quote="mazskolnieces" data-source="post: 924838" data-attributes="member: 88422"><p>I have access to numbers and I know what they say. Less than 1 % of people purchase at the end of a trial.</p><p></p><p>Like for decades, the people on forums like this and elsewhere are the types that do not pay for software. It's not a generalization. It is merely pointing out fact. And the attitude of not paying for software hasn't changed. It's not just limited to security and software forums. Given the fact that so few people buy after exhausting a trial shows that most of them had no intention of every paying in the first place.</p><p></p><p>Microsoft Defender is one of the cheapest cost AV there is. When you buy OEM, you're only paying about $50 for the Windows license. And given most people keep their systems longer than 5 years, that makes Microsoft Defender cheap.</p><p></p><p>Stealing software is stealing software. That's all there is to it. It's unethical and immoral. It is a cut and dry matter. Software thievery is an epidemic problem. It costs the industry literally hundreds of billions of dollars per year. I for one fully back vendors and governments that aggressively hunt down and prosecute software pirates and other copyright violators. And that includes all the people that buy $3 licenses on eBay for just about everything. The vast majority of those licenses are illegal.</p><p></p><p>If you had read, I said trials are OK. But the vast majority of the people that use them abuse them. And why is that ? Because they have no intention of paying. Not paying for the software is not the # 1 driving force behind most people using trials. However, it most certainly does figure in the top 3 reasons.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mazskolnieces, post: 924838, member: 88422"] I have access to numbers and I know what they say. Less than 1 % of people purchase at the end of a trial. Like for decades, the people on forums like this and elsewhere are the types that do not pay for software. It's not a generalization. It is merely pointing out fact. And the attitude of not paying for software hasn't changed. It's not just limited to security and software forums. Given the fact that so few people buy after exhausting a trial shows that most of them had no intention of every paying in the first place. Microsoft Defender is one of the cheapest cost AV there is. When you buy OEM, you're only paying about $50 for the Windows license. And given most people keep their systems longer than 5 years, that makes Microsoft Defender cheap. Stealing software is stealing software. That's all there is to it. It's unethical and immoral. It is a cut and dry matter. Software thievery is an epidemic problem. It costs the industry literally hundreds of billions of dollars per year. I for one fully back vendors and governments that aggressively hunt down and prosecute software pirates and other copyright violators. And that includes all the people that buy $3 licenses on eBay for just about everything. The vast majority of those licenses are illegal. If you had read, I said trials are OK. But the vast majority of the people that use them abuse them. And why is that ? Because they have no intention of paying. Not paying for the software is not the # 1 driving force behind most people using trials. However, it most certainly does figure in the top 3 reasons. [/QUOTE]
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