I use to download and use pirated software, I stopped it when I went fully legit.

I own Photoshop CS, Illustrator 9 (can't afford cs quite yet), GIF Animator, Swish Max, Photoimpact XL and ColorImpact.

I also have a ton of free open source software like Filezilla, Terragen, Blender 3D etc...

I fully recommend all of you to purchase the software, if you don't then companies that make it will go broke. If they go broke then they won't be able to make software anymore.