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Adobe Defends Its Ridiculous Australian Pricing Before Parliament

About a month ago, the fact that Australian customers pay so much more for Adobe CS6 that it's actually cheaper to fly to the US and get it went viral on the internet. At that point, Adobe had already been summoned in front of Parliament to explain the "price gouging," and had even dropped their monthly Creative Cloud subscriptions to reasonable rates in response.

Now, Adobe -- alongside Apple and Microsoft -- have finally been forced to keep that appointment. And during the meeting, each of the three companies gave the Australian Parliamentary Committee a few reasons as to why exactly Australian customers have to pay so much more for some of their products.