You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks • Hacker News Board

Re: You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks

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Post by laverya » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 4:18 AM UTC

Lammy wrote: post #146

alister wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That was an excellent summary of Adobe's software giveaway. Are you sure that the replacement serial numbers are individualized ? When I tried googling, some of my replacement serial numbers are found on the web, some aren't. This seems to suggest that they are not individualized -- at least for some product & platform combinations. My own theory about the motivation of the original giveaway is that they lost the abi…

> But are you sure that the replacement serial numbers are individualized? Just an assumption because I have two legit OS X CS3 Master Collection serials, got two different replacement offline serials for them, and those serials don't work for the Windows version just like the originals didn't v(._. )v

Well, that could easily still be the case if there was one code for Windows and one for OS X.

Re: You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks

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Post by zakki » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 4:19 AM UTC

userbinator wrote: post #105

mjrpes wrote: post #37

I thought back in 2013 Adobe made a download available for Creative Suite 2 that did not require an activation server for install: https://www.cnet.com/news/adobe-releases-creative-suite-2-fo... However it looks like this download is not available anymore.

It's available in the web archive, among other places.

I tried yo search one of the link from CNET news in archive.org. It said archived is removed (per request)

Re: You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks

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Post by ocdtrekkie » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 4:21 AM UTC

I stopped using Adobe software long ago, once they moved subscription. That being said, keygens for CS3 probably still work fine since they generated activation codes too, and if you own it legally, you're probably well in the clear to use a keygen to activate it in the case Adobe won't.

Re: You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks

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Post by mjrpes » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 4:23 AM UTC

Grakel wrote: post #73

Shared404 wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or better yet, an open source alternative. I like both GIMP and Krita. 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.

Photopea.com is exactly like photoshop, it's free, web based or download!

This is pretty amazing, so glad you posted it. It has layer blending options and shadow/highlights, two feature I can't live without and are often missing in free editors. The menus are exactly like photoshop. And finally an API that lets you save/load PSD/images to and from cloud storage.

Re: You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks

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Post by kristopolous » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 4:24 AM UTC

potency wrote: post #128

> The aging activation servers for those apps had to be retired. Oh come on. Surely a company with the resources of Adobe can figure out a way to keep an activation server running. In fact I'll bet you could find one competent sysadmin to keep it running indefinitely. I hate when companies spew out obvious utter B.S. like this.

CS3 was in 2007. It's not like we're talking about an IBM 709 here. It's probably a Core 2 Duo or a Clovertown Xeon. Give me a break.

When producing digital goods you never want to be in a position where honest people who want to pay you money will get a better customer experience by going through thepiratebay.

Re: You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks

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Post by ByteJockey » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 4:25 AM UTC

srtjstjsj wrote: post #124

zamalek wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You're wrong. Cracking your own software is always legal, and making illegal copies is always not, regardless of cracks.

That's not how the DMCA works. Circumventing these measure is completely illegal. It's just that doing it on your own software is very unlikely to have anyone find out.

But it's a problem for researchers, who generally want to publish their findings (or at least was the last time I was really paying attention to the law in the early to mid 00s).

Re: You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks

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Post by maxerickson » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 4:26 AM UTC

tbirdny wrote: post #62

No one would still be using CS 2 or 3 if Adobe had reasonable prices on new products. I bought Adobe products since the mid 1990s, but I recently switched to Affinity Photo and Designer because Adobe priced me out. Elements wasn't powerful enough for me. I was surprised how good Affinity software is. It does everything I need and is a very reasonable price without a subscription. I may never buy another Adobe product…

$600 a year isn't particularly expensive (that's for Creative Cloud).

Roughly $0.30 an hour vs whatever wage is being paid to click the buttons.

It's not cheap, but it's not something businesses are going to balk at either. They are showing healthy growth in revenue:

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/ADBE/financials?p=ADBE

So apparently lots of their users are not concerned about their change to the pricing model and increased cost of use?

Re: You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks

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Post by sneak » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 4:26 AM UTC

If you’re tired of this like me, Blackmagic Design sells their editing/postproduction/color suite Davinci Resolve for a one-time purchase price, no subscription.

Pixelmator is a lovely replacement for Photoshop, too.

Re: You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks

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Post by ajxs » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 4:26 AM UTC

Lammy wrote: post #86

BuildTheRobots wrote: post #14

I discovered this at the start of lockdown when our hackspace got donated some older iMacs and full copies of CS3. Apparently if you got in contact with them when they first announced the retirement they were giving out activation-free installers to people who could prove ownership. It'd be lovely if someone has these archived somewhere for those of us that weren't quick enough.

It'd be lovely if you had contact information in your profile ;)

...just thought I'd mention here that I have my contact information in mine.

Re: You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks

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Post by Animats » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 4:27 AM UTC

I was, however, able to install Adobe/Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS from the original install disks with the original serial numbers. On Windows 7, some update broke SFTP, and I had to give up on it on Windows. SFTP works fine under Wine. So I can maintain some old sites created with Dreamweaver.