I want to say there has to be a better way but given half of HN now is devoted to selling *AAS'es they will be strongly motivated to not see this as a problem.
You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks
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Re: You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks
#232And 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…
IKEA doesn't send a guy to my house to smash the plates I bought just because they release new ones that they think are better.
Re: You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks
#233> 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.
A lot of game studios release a final patch removing DRM. That would have been nice.
That would be nice but these are completely different types of people.
Re: You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks
#234Earlier quoted context omitted.
What would you think it would cost per year? What $ amount? What would be the break down? Legacy software, security and the constant upgrades, a manager, HR, customer support. Training your all your call centres to know about it and who to re-direct issues to.
* Legacy software - unsupported, $0 * security and the constant upgrades - unsupported, $0 * a manager - unsupported, $0 * HR - unsupported, $0 * customer support - unsupported, $0 * Training your all your call centres to know about it and who to re-direct issues to - unsupported, $0 all non-issues. Adobe is intentionally breaking the software. Those arguments are like saying an Apple ][ shouldn't be able to run "The…
What lesson? With the consildation of youtube and twitter and them now being the arbiters (with a nice backdoor to rights holders) they won.
Re: You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks
#235It's 2020, the ipad is 10 years old. It was a revolutionary product. Some people stood in line for hours to be the first to own it. Well that reminds me, i do own one! Get it out of the closet and ah, the battery is depleted. Who expects it to hold charge after... 8 years? I don't have a cable either. I have lightning though, even usb-c. But nope, it's the old 30 pin charger. Order it online. Still works! Except, I h…
IT has gone for the worse and I feel like what SV has turned into is partly to blame.
Re: You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks
#236Earlier 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!
I mean this is the same trap, one day the website won't be around, then what will you do?
Re: You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks
#237Just 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…
"Hi, this is from IKEA. To celebrate the launch of our new line of tableware, we're here to smash all the dinner plates you bought three years ago."
Re: You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks
#238It's 2020, the ipad is 10 years old. It was a revolutionary product. Some people stood in line for hours to be the first to own it. Well that reminds me, i do own one! Get it out of the closet and ah, the battery is depleted. Who expects it to hold charge after... 8 years? I don't have a cable either. I have lightning though, even usb-c. But nope, it's the old 30 pin charger. Order it online. Still works! Except, I h…
Thats some pretty horrific shit considering I have dot com era machines lying around still running fine
I have a 1991 Macintosh with some expansion cards that I use for making music. It still works perfectly.
Re: You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks
#239I've been a firm believer that copyrights should expire when the item isn't commercially available anymore. And to keep people from abusing the obvious issues, it needs to be available at a reasonable cost relative to its price when originally released, or the copyright renewal needs to have an exponentially growing fee. I've also been considering what it means if copyright was to assure something for the public good…
It's outrageous that copyright protection applies to DRM-encumbered material. Simply outrageous. Copyright is supposed to be a bargain with the public domain, and DRM explicitly renounces that bargain. This is a great example to point to... but as usual, nobody cares who has any power to change things, and nobody with any power cares.
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Re: You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks
#240I found this week that Adobe Fireworks CS6 no longer activates with a Creative Cloud subscription. I’ve been a Creative Cloud customer since launch but now have to crack my copy of Adobe Fireworks CS6 to use it. Horrific thought for me since I hate using hacks to run software (who the hell really knows what is in there) but I can’t find another way to use it legally (no one has a copy for sale second hand).
I’d switch but I am very busy with work and can’t justify the time to learn new software right now while I still know all the features of Fireworks as I’ve used it since Macromedia introduced it.
I wish upon wish that Adobe had just made it possible to obtain a license key for it that worked offline.
Really upset at Adobe right now about this but also can’t imagine switching since everyone in the industry uses their file types.
I won’t invest my time in learning more of their products after this though.