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Using pirated software in games
| I don't think anyone can tell if your tools are pirated. The only one doing the busting is your conscience
| You could have produced what you need on someone elses computer and only take the final product to use fufther on.
But I do not know about the answer of your question. But then, what if all software is bought properly but the OS they run onto is pirated. Or if all software and os is proper but the computer is stolen? Or only the processor? Or of all photoshop only a couple of plugins are pirated?
It is a slippery slope cascading to no end if what you say were the case.
| (OP)...so I guess no one can really tell so I shouldn't stress it too much?
| Just to be on the safe side, try to see if you can export the files to a format that's not proprietary
| Yeah, don't stress it op
| op worried about something like hidden digital signatures on files produced, hire an online freelancer from 3rd world country to take the blame
| Op you should be fine, it's unlikely anyone will think to check in the first place and if they do it's even more unlikely they will ask if you have a license for the software to make it, if it bothers you import it into something like gimp then export it again from there and just say you used gimp
| >>139961 Caveman here. Are digital signatures checkable? Say I make a poster for business using a pirated photoshop, would they be able to notice?
| Yes, you should be put in jail for using stuff like Photoshop. Software piracy is a major crime. The good thing is, there are free alternatives like Krita and/or Gimp.
| >>141233
I use both of em, since they are diffrent programs with diffrent aims. Gimp is also very powerful, but yeah the default Interface looks a bit crappy compared to Krita (like all non-QT based UIs) Oh, I forgot to mention lightroom for photo editing.
| >>141355
Can second Krita, but I replace Lightroom with Darktable (for RAW adjustments). I'm using both on Mac and Linux, they both are pretty good FOSS replacements that work fine (enough) for me.
| >>141226
You must be new in the the industry AND the cyberpunk scene. One for thinking that 2/3ds of the world should be put in jails for using pirated software. And that is an optimistic estimate because there are more. I have worked in a huge ship transport company where ALL the fleet ships used pirated software, appart from 2 programs that it was not possible because the vendor was needed to setup the db cluster.
Second, because bying the software means also to support....
| ... the vendor. Usually cyberpunks support the the just and the needy more than the fat corporations which have brought us to today where you are not the owner of something you bought, as stated in Adobe's EULA and of countless other software.
| So, could we say that all the shops on that company..........
Were pirate ships?
| Unless your planning to make alot of $$$, u shoukd not worry. Adobe has better thing to do that suing people using pirated version of their software. (Like making pluggins and security hole for their software)
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| So say I'm Making a game using a free program like unity, but some of my assets, maybe some sprites for example were made in a pirated version of photoshop/illustrator or whatever, could you get busted for doing this, I mean you created the assets yourself but using something you didn't own...