> Adobe didn't hunt down pirates much because piracy bred new professionals whose companies would just have to pay for Creative Cloud.

Wouldn't surprise me. Microsoft had the same attitude for pirating Windows. Bill Gates said

> Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, people don’t pay for the software. Someday they will, though. And as long as they’re going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They’ll get sort of addicted, and then we’ll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade

Adobe figured out how to collect once they went subscription only.