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Seems like a breach of contract. Adobe should give the money back, at least.
What if you have assets that can only be opened by that version of the software? What if these assets are worth more to you than the cost of the software?
Followed by learning Krita.
I don't have the original license agreements handy to determine whether this is the case, but I'm guessing the following are true: 1) Customers "agree" to binding arbitration 2) Adobe reserves the right to terminate your ability to install the software at any time If the above are not true, however, this seems like a nice target for an entrepreneurial class action lawyer. Of course, what we really need are some vastl…
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I’m sure there’s a provision that protects them in the EULA you agreed to when you purchased it. Isn’t it a moot point anyway because nobody ever “buys” software, they just obtain a license to use it. Ownership is such a convoluted concept in tech, particularly in software.
That’s somewhat sketchy with pre boxed software. Old Nintendo cartridges just worked and presumably had zero copyright issues. If you’re buying/using hardware with software preinstalled, at what point did you agreed to the EULA?
Alexa, show me how to drive a significant portion of your customer base towards unashamed piracy.
The problem with piracy is that it still ends up with more people knowing the proprietary software, and thus helps it keep the position cemented.
switch to Gimp
"The aging activation servers for those apps had to be retired." Cry me a river - Adobe can't afford to keep an old server running? At least be honest about the motivation.
What happens to digitally signed PDF documents 10 years from now? Will they no longer be valid/legally openable?
Adobe killed the product activation servers for CS2 products in 2013, and for CS3 products in 2017. For CS2, they offered Activation-free replacement installers and generic serial numbers on their support page. This resulted in a bunch of press[0] about it being a /!\ omg completely free Creative Suite /!\, so for CS3's 2017 shutdown[1] they made you register your original serials to your Adobe Account in exchange for an individualized offline serial and the offline installer[2].
I don't know exactly when, but some time around the end of 2019 or the beginning of 2020 they ended[3] the offline installer program for CS3, removed the ability to generate offline serials in my Adobe Account page or even re-access the offline downloads for my already-generated serials, and have seemingly scrubbed their Knowledge Base of any mention that they ever existed.
I am so thankful I got them while I was able to since aside from needing to tweak the high-DPI handling[4] the CS3 apps work beautifully on my Windows 10 x64 machine. All CS3 applications are only 32-bit, but they're also the final versions with traditional UIs before they gave everything a shiny new Flash-based UI in CS4, so I'm fine with it :)
[0]: https://nofilmschool.com/2013/01/adobe-releases-creative-sui...
[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20190401002548/https://helpx.ado...
[2]: https://i.imgur.com/ae1SWN5.png (my screenshot!)
[3]: https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop/locked-photoshop-cs...
What happens to digitally signed PDF documents 10 years from now? Will they no longer be valid/legally openable?
PDF files are an ISO standard (including the digital signing part), so that should be fine.
