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Why I’ll be Pirating Adobe’s Products From Now On

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Re: Why I’ll be Pirating Adobe’s Products From Now On

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Post by bigd »

dasil003 wrote: post #17

I 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 upgra…

25 bucks a month for students is not that bad. And 50 month is totally reasonable. I find it much more accessible than before. And honestly I think that's less than the money the average person here spends monthly at coffee-shops. Or in one night out!

Here's how you can afford it: avoid eating 5 sandwiches in a posh bar per month, and cook sometimes by yourself.

Re: Why I’ll be Pirating Adobe’s Products From Now On

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Post by toomuchtodo »

Kudos wrote: post #32
toomuchtodo wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If there are two products, and both can accomplish the necessary task(s), and one is cheaper, the cheaper product is the superior product.

Replace "can accomplish the necessary task(s)" with "are functionally equivalent" and maybe you have a point. But the pirate copy is missing automatic updates and access to the web services (which Adobe has cleverly started moving into to add value where pirate copies cannot).

> Replace "can accomplish the necessary task(s)" with "are functionally equivalent" and maybe you have a point.

Now you're just being pedantic :)

Re: Why I’ll be Pirating Adobe’s Products From Now On

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Post by srik »

logicallee wrote: post #14
woah wrote: post #5

Hate 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."

IMO Sketch is actually more relevant than Photoshop for some work,

Re: Why I’ll be Pirating Adobe’s Products From Now On

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Post by crististm »

DominikR wrote: post #23

I just don't get such people, how can someone be so persistently annoying instead of just downloading the damn software somewhere else? Or maybe connecting an external DVD drive/using Apple Software to connect to some DVD drive over network. Instead this guy wastes his time calling hotlines and writing a pointless blog post - I guess that's what it means to be more productive on a Mac. (Of course, there are people th…

The starting point is where you say to yourself to do it "the right way". It turns out that you had a blind spot and your solution was far from being right or optimal. Time for a reality check.

In this case "pirating" was a viable solution but the quest for a binary changed into one about "rightfulness". Reality check: "what are you trying to achieve?".

Re: Why I’ll be Pirating Adobe’s Products From Now On

#46

Post by samstave »

spodek wrote: post #9

> Me: So you’re telling me I should download an illegal copy of your software, and use my legal serial with it? > Support: Yes Sir, that will work. Seems to me if they tell you you can do something with their product, you aren't pirating. You're following their instructions, though I'm no lawyer.

The way this brief interaction is constructed would lead one to surmise that the SOFTWARE is not what is protected/IP/sold to you... it is the LICENSE key.

Thus, downloading software should never be an offence.

He paid for the serial, not the software..

Re: Why I’ll be Pirating Adobe’s Products From Now On

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Post by csmithuk »

bigd wrote: post #41
dasil003 wrote: post #17

I 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 upgra…

25 bucks a month for students is not that bad. And 50 month is totally reasonable. I find it much more accessible than before. And honestly I think that's less than the money the average person here spends monthly at coffee-shops. Or in one night out! Here's how you can afford it: avoid eating 5 sandwiches in a posh bar per month, and cook sometimes by yourself.

My IT budget for the year is about $500. Doesn't fit.

Re: Why I’ll be Pirating Adobe’s Products From Now On

#48

Post by kabdib »

About a decade ago I bought some OCR software. I used it for a few years, then flattened my OS and had to reinstall it.

No dice. It was not supported any more; I even had the license, but the company's activation servers no longer worked. I could pay $400 or so to buy a new version or do without.

I did without. I refuse to buy that company's products.

Re: Why I’ll be Pirating Adobe’s Products From Now On

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Post by hrrsn »

MatthewWilkes wrote: post #36
greenyoda wrote: post #31

A guy from Adobe replied in the comments. Apparently Adobe is a bit uncomfortable with the advice that their support rep gave about downloading a pirated copy of the software: Hi, your blog post was brought to my attention. After reading this post, I want to apologize for the way that your issue was handled. Our tech support agent provided you incorrect information as far “that its OK to download pirated software”. T…

"should not of been suggested" twitch

> "downloading the software from the Adobe’s server"

twitches again

Re: Why I’ll be Pirating Adobe’s Products From Now On

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Post by cromulent »

Yet another Adobe story:

I paid for CS4, infrequent user, after a couple of hardware changes (SSDs etc) it wouldn't install anymore. Long Skype call to US (over an hour), treated like criminal.

Forget it, I'm your customer taking the burden of your business problems. Happy Acorn user now.

So many dollars over the years on PS/Macromedia/etc, never again.

So tired of companies treating honest customers like criminals.

Edit: how many times have I bought a movie on iTunes to show my kids how to do it right, and then torrented it as I couldn't wait for the download, too slow.

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