Quote Originally Posted by Jenner View Post
Here's something to throw you for a loop. A few years back, a coworker went to China for a trip. He comes back and tells me he bought Photoshop there but he couldn't get it to install, he wanted me to take a look at it. He hands me the disk.

Now this disc is pristine. It's a factory created pressed disc with silver foil and everything. The Adobe Photoshop branding is screen-printed on the back with the equivalent Chinese characters alongside everything. It all looks exactly as I'd expect some Chinese version of Adobe Photoshop to look. I put the disk in my computer to take a peek at the autorun and find out why it's not doing anything.

What I saw blew me away, there was no installer, no autorun, just a pirate RAR archive of some illegal copy of Photoshop and a text file with some pirated serial numbers.

It was a pressed, factory made, screen printed disk! He said he picked it up on the street of Bejing for $1. That there are guys wearing those cocktail waitress style cigar carry trays filled with disks like these of every program you can imagine for $1 each. Every one of them, a pressed factory made screen printed disk.

As an extension of that, I don't trust any software sold on eBay.
I have seen similar disks being sold in Mumbai (Fort area). You name the game, they get it for you. The price is roughly a couple of dollars.