At Thinkfast Media we use professional software purchased legally. Some of our devices are professional and also were purchased legally.
It is a FEDERAL CRIME punishable with fines and prison here in the U.S.A. Possibly you could be paying thousands of dollars, tens of thousands of dollars in fines AND spend YEARS in FEDERAL PRISON. You must not know better if you are doing it. If the one you are stealing from has bought software and hardware that is legal… there will be traces back to the original purchases and devices on EVERY FILE they create. For instance, every jpeg image file a photographer makes on their camera has a serial number and creation date embedded. This also happens with image files processed in Adobe products. Each file will also have information about modification date as well as what software was used. And that kind of information has been embedded for over a decade. There may be more information now. DON’T STEAL THINGS FROM OTHER PEOPLE’S DEVICES. YOU could also be capturing viruses and bugs onto your own devices. Even more amazing… if someone’s laptop is so compromised, OTHER SNOOPERS will know where you got creative files without even opening up the date on them! DON’T BE STUPID. Make your own art or HIRE an artist.
Better yet: HIRE AN ARTIST if you need creative content. They’ll help you customize what you need and you will OWN RIGHTS TO WHAT THEY MAKE FOR YOU.