Even though I will never advocate ripping off intellectual property....one has very little wonder why people go to download sites and steal things they never would paid for to stay updated. If I could recoup all the non transferable plug- in's I bought when I replaced my main computer system, I could have saved enough for a good used car. It is the clients that end up paying for them and profit margins to the facility lowered.
Just a rant. I keep an update budget to cover those faux pas's.
I first got bit in 95 running windows 3.1 and had to totally repurchase for Win 95. Over 1000.00 in software with 2 months use on it and all those floppies that were of no use.
Im was one of the first to run windows as a main music/editing system. E-GAD it was expensive then.
Remember Amega?