Legal software, if I could!

For quite a long time now I have been using a particular software package almost on a daily basis. I will confess right now that I have never bought a license for it and as such I am using an illegal copy of it. I decided that the time had come to buy it, and since I had seen a prior version for sale at a computer fair I thought I’d go online and buy the current version at the RRP which is about £80 or so.

As it turns out, the company has just been bought out by Corel and Corel don’t seem to have it on their list of products yet - at least, not for Australia/New Zealand. I can’t purchase it from the US website as I cannot select New Zealand from the country list for my credit card. When trying to purchase from the UK site, the price was the same in pounds as it was in US dollars - unless I’m wrong I think iTunes got done for charging different prices for online products from different countries (between UK & Europe).

So, I struggle onwards - the site doesn’t work to select New Zealand, or Australia, or the entire Pacific Region for that matter. After genuinely trying for about 15 minutes with my credit card handy I gave up with a sigh of dispair.

So, here I am, still using it illegally. I’ll buy it when I see it on a shelf.