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@jodie_harsh
Wrong - I had a friend who used to work for adobe - they have quite a large division that tackles illegitimate copies - they DO make cases against individual people and the penalties can be quite severe. A well known creative agency working across UK and US had to close after they were caught using illegal versions of the software for the last 6-8 years. They couldn't sustain the fines and had to close shop! Fines and penalites vary but if they pin you for using the software for more than a year or a certain amount of time, they can push for ALOT in penalties.
If you're looking to learn and mess around then yeh, use a crack/borrowed/student version but if you are making money from it, get a license - its a bit cheap using cracks as they DO mess up and you look like a chump when the issue you have is license issues when trying to work!
In regards to price - if you're using it purposefully, you make the price back within a month - compared to plumbers, builders, design software tools are by far the cheapest!