Comments on: Russia, high prices, and piracy http://www.p2pnet.net/story/11398 p2pnet.net - reader powered Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:27:55 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/11398/comment-page-1#comment-134104 Reader's Write Fri, 23 Feb 2007 04:43:32 +0000 #comment-134104 I visit Russia from time to time. It is not hard to find legal software, CDs, DVDs in the large stores or online. Still vast (i would say above 80%) majority of people buy from the street. A couple of examples: at approx $4 one will get a DVD with full Adobe suite includes everything, cracked, hacked, zipped to the point that it takes more than the DVD standard allows, but it is still readable and installable. It is hard to buy off the street VisualStudio, but DVD containing Windows XP professional + Symantec AV + VisualStudio + English/Russian dictionary + ... can be bought at the same $4 I should mention that copies are very good and include original art work and everything. Service in the "stores" is adequate, If this specific place does not have exactly what you are looking for the friendly seller will point you to the place where they have the product. I visit Russia from time to time. It is not hard to find legal software, CDs, DVDs in the large stores or online. Still vast (i would say above 80%) majority of people buy from the street.

A couple of examples: at approx $4 one will get a DVD with full Adobe suite includes everything, cracked, hacked, zipped to the point that it takes more than the DVD standard allows, but it is still readable and installable.
It is hard to buy off the street VisualStudio, but DVD containing Windows XP professional + Symantec AV + VisualStudio + English/Russian dictionary + … can be bought at the same $4

I should mention that copies are very good and include original art work and everything. Service in the “stores” is adequate, If this specific place does not have exactly what you are looking for the friendly seller will point you to the place where they have the product.

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