This is Adobe lining themselves up for someone to do to them what they did to Quark. And by the same mechanism: utter contempt for the customer.
Why I’ll be Pirating Adobe’s Products From Now On
11–20 of 176 posts
Re: Why I’ll be Pirating Adobe’s Products From Now On
#12A better, more insightful article than the stupid title implies. The author is dealing with the problem of how to install software he's already paid for.
Smartdraw (www.smartdraw.com) is very similar. They do not even allow you to download the software you have paid for and force an upgrade for a steep price.
Re: Why I’ll be Pirating Adobe’s Products From Now On
#13You can find the CS5 trial downloads here: http://prodesigntools.com/all-adobe-cs5-direct-download-link... All you need to do after that is insert your Student and Teacher serial number.
The annoying part is that you have to jump through cookie hoops to get the file, even though pro design appears to be affiliated with Adobe. Adobe does run a "hidden" FTP with installers for everything back to like version 9 of the software in the suite (excepting, for some odd reason, CS 5.5).
Re: Why I’ll be Pirating Adobe’s Products From Now On
#14Hate to say it, but I pirate Adobe's software for real. I use Pixelmator and Sketch, which are superior products at one tenth of the price. However, I often need to open files in Adobe's legacy formats, and since they do not provide any sort of converter software, I must take the only option available to me.
I think you mean, "the cheaper of the two options available to me."
Re: Why I’ll be Pirating Adobe’s Products From Now On
#15Just do the localhost hack and you can use it all for free. Takes 1 min. http://theflashblogger.blogspot.com/2011/04/how-to-active-ma...
Re: Why I’ll be Pirating Adobe’s Products From Now On
#16wow, quit your bellyaching and borrow an external cd-rom. Or, buy one for $30 (or less?). I don't know how you value your time, but surely $30 is worth it for the amount of time you've spent thinking about this, writing about it, on the phone, and now responding to people about it. also, hilarious that in my chrome, the obnoxiously massive adobe flash banner on your blog is crashing: http://snag.gy/FEVCV.jpg
That "obnoxiously massive adobe flash banner" that is "crashing" is intentional: http://parkerrr.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/MZCin.png
Also, the "time [OP has] spent thinking about this, writing about it, on the phone, and now responding to people about it" is certainly worth more than $30 since it represents an issue that many people (including myself) have encountered, and I'm glad someone took the time to publicly document their frustration on behalf of the rest of us sharing that frustration.
Re: Why I’ll be Pirating Adobe’s Products From Now On
#17I was hoping this would be about how annoying the pricing is for Creative Cloud. If I was a designer then I could justify paying that kind of monthly tariff, but as primarily a developer who needs infrequent access to Photoshop or Illustrator the pricing options are just highway robbery. At least in the old days I could pay up front and stretch it out over time to get my money's worth by deciding when and if to upgrade. Adobe is really pushing me as hard as they can towards the competition, and I've been using Photoshop for over 20 years now, so it's no light decision to give up such a familiar UI.
Re: Why I’ll be Pirating Adobe’s Products From Now On
#18Hate to say it, but I pirate Adobe's software for real. I use Pixelmator and Sketch, which are superior products at one tenth of the price. However, I often need to open files in Adobe's legacy formats, and since they do not provide any sort of converter software, I must take the only option available to me.
I think you mean, "the cheaper of the two options available to me."
If there are two products, and both can accomplish the necessary task(s), and one is cheaper, the cheaper product is the superior product.
Re: Why I’ll be Pirating Adobe’s Products From Now On
#19I find it interesting that despite Adobe (and many other companies) fixating on the idea that really what you're buying is the -serial-, not the binary, they don't continue to offer the binary.
It runs at complete odds with the claim, and also what is clearly the expectation of the OP.
I think we, as humans, have issues with buying 'permission' to use a good, even a digital good; what we want is to -buy- the good. Not license it. And since when we 'buy' it, it's now ours, it's free for us to share (or so the logic goes).
It also seems rather amazing that Adobe's fix would be to tell you to download the software from an illegitimate source, given that the frequent anti-piracy scare tactics are that such downloads are ripe with malware, and will steal your serial, your bank account passwords, your soul, your little dog too, etc etc.
Re: Why I’ll be Pirating Adobe’s Products From Now On
#20Downloading software is not piracy. Using it is. After all you are entitled to personal backup of your install media. The fact that the backup is distributed and cloud based is irrelevant.
There is another reason why downloading software from "somewhere else" is less than ideal in a case like this. The reason is that the pirated download might not be the original software as provided by the developer; there is no guarantee that it doesn't have, for example, some virus in it.