> >Max/Maya are fiendishly expensive, and both fiendishly popular
>
> Recent investigation showed an almost 20:1 ratio of pirated vs. legal
> copies of Max *in use* (not counting the countless kids who d/led it
> off a warez site to play with it).
>
> And I am not talking about Bulgaria, I'm talking worldwide.

that's not really a bad thing, 'at home joe' is hardly going to use max to
create the next starwars, however if he gets good at it he may end up
working for an employer that buys many copies. The industry is crying out
for highly skilled artists, and the skill level required is not something
that 'at home joe' would realistically be able to achieve through legal
means (like a course or 2). free versions of max & Maya demonstrate their
respective companies understanding of this


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