Summary of I Have to Pirate COLOURS Now??

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This YouTube video discusses how Adobe and Pantone are both losing money due to their standardization of color software. Adobe has been able to keep customers by providing cheap rates to students, but they will eventually lose them to competitors who provide a better service. The narrator also describes a time when YouTube changed the price of their premium service, and how he fought back.

• 00:00:00 The video showcases a tweet from Ian Anderson, in which he previews what users will experience if they load a file that uses Pantone colors in Adobe Creative Cloud after November 2022. If users think this is outrageous, they are right - as projects suddenly start requiring payment for ransom due to Pantone's monopoly over the color printing industry. Pantone has been around since before the digital age, and is best known for producing color swatches in various mixtures and materials. However, when it works, it works well. However, due to a dispute between Pantone and Adobe, Creative Cloud users are now faced with the choice of either paying for Adobe's subscription service on top of what they already pay for Creative Cloud, or using Pantone spot colors which are not supported in Photoshop or Illustrator.
• 00:05:00 As digital ink don't fade, the increasing popularity of Adobe Creative Cloud and Pantone's licensing dispute has caused the removal of colors from software. ordinary Creative Cloud subscribers are not able to use Pantone's services and those who do are forced to pay for the privilege. Meanwhile, Adobe charges more for Creative Cloud subscriptions and fewer features are being added to the older versions.
• 00:10:00 The author discusses how Adobe left Pantone hanging, and how there are three ways to get around the lack of colors in Adobe Creative Cloud. The author also discusses how Photoshop has long been one of the most pirated applications, and how the situation with Pantone is one of the reasons why Pirates Who otherwise have the means to buy do what they do. The author recommends that software as a service developers take notes when they sign up for any software, and recommends that they consider the cost of entry when they make this decision.
• 00:15:00 In this YouTube video, the narrator explains how Adobe and Pantone are both losing money due to their standardization of color software. Adobe has been able to keep customers by providing cheap rates to students, but they will eventually lose them to competitors who provide a better service. The narrator also describes a time when YouTube changed the price of their premium service, and how he fought back.