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"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.
Release a patch to remove the check and you don’t need to worry about it.
This is a fundamental problem with commercial software. 15 years ago when this software was released the choice to have server authentication essentially was the original sin.
No, it's a fundamental problem with Adobe software.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m also not a lawyer, but I’m pretty sure that’s not a thing, at least in the US. Downloading/distributing abandonware is still piracy, it’s just much less likely anyone will care.
I remember The Internet Archive celebrating the fact that the "do not tamper" clause was no longer legal for abandonware (as they host tons of abandonware that has been cracked, e.g. Win 95). But I could be wrong.
switch to Gimp
How is this comment grayed out? I just scrolled past like eight pages of bozos shamelessly talking about pirating Adobe, suing Adobe, and regulating Adobe... before finally finding a comment I can respect, and it's downmodded. I mean, is this Hacker News or is it Russian Hacker News?
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…
EULAs in boxed software were always strange to begin with. You could not return opened software so if you purchased something like CS 2 on disc and didn’t like the terms there was nothing you could do. The agreements were not always enforceable unless the terms were stated on the box or a refund option was provided (which rarely was for fear of piracy).
Just did it couple days ago for a sim for my LTE hotspot.
I guess on the plus side, my returns tend to go smoothly as the boxes tend to look unopened.
Just swap "Adobe cs2" for a car so it gets a lot funnier >>Sir, you are no longer allowed to use your car >But I paid for it! It's my car! >>Our aging servers had to be retired >Can't you just turn off the checking so it won't cost you anything and I can keep using my car? >>No sir, without the checking people would start pirating the car > But you don't even sell this car anymore! So much so you don't even want to k…
And you can no longer use the 2008 version of Gmail. Adobe moved to a subscription model that has allowed them to stay alive as a business without monetizing you as the product like many other ad based businesses. Adobe gets trashed endlessly for this because we had a taste of the perpetual license long ago. But the perpetual license doesn't make sense with cloud based updates and document sync that everyone also exp…
Updates come via paying the fairly high price to start with, you know, supporting the damned product you paid for.
Document sync is something that is provided via a bunch of other services if you need it - icloud/onedrive/dropbox/etc
But sure, come up with more laughable excuses to justify shitty company practices.
Feature updates just come in new versions, which you pay for.
Monthly payments can still work, many other companies use that model, and after a period of time, you're frozen at the last version you paid for (after a year for example) if you stop paying.
But yeah, screw them now - I used to have a usable paid version, but no longer - there are better alternatives now.
Just swap "Adobe cs2" for a car so it gets a lot funnier >>Sir, you are no longer allowed to use your car >But I paid for it! It's my car! >>Our aging servers had to be retired >Can't you just turn off the checking so it won't cost you anything and I can keep using my car? >>No sir, without the checking people would start pirating the car > But you don't even sell this car anymore! So much so you don't even want to k…
Cars only have replacement parts available for N years.