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Alexa, show me how to drive a significant portion of your customer base towards unashamed piracy.
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…
"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.
>>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 keep the servers online!
>>I'm sure you'll love the new model we are selling
> I don't need a new car! I already have one, fuck off! I'm just gonna use a crack
>> Sir it's illegal to run unauthorized software on your car
This will be remembered as a dark age of humanity. Anything built or released in the early 21st century will simply become meaningless bytes to future generations.
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…
How is this relevant? Gmail has always been a remotely hosted service. This is about Photoshop CS, not CC.
And I do not expect old software to do cloud updates/document sync. I expect it to keep working as is.
I also can't stand the endless "Needs connectivity" and "Set up syncing now" in modern software.
This will be remembered as a dark age of humanity. Anything built or released in the early 21st century will simply become meaningless bytes to future generations.
> You can no longer reinstall Creative Suite 2 or 3 even if you have the original installation disks. The aging activation servers for those apps had to be retired. I always wonder if a situation like this is legal. If I purchased a product and want to keep using it, what right does the seller have to prevent me from doing so x years later? Can I sue them for not selling me the product they said they were selling me?
Did you accept the agreement when installing?
That actually doesn't matter if the terms are unreasonable.
Courts commonly understand that one-sided unreasonable licenses are unenforceable when litigated.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
This should be a requirement enforced by legislation.
IANAL, it is now abandonware and can be legally cracked (legislation past year or two).
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…
The original EULA doesn’t say those things (CS3 was before the era where everything had an arbitration agreement stapled to it), but does say that the software is only warrantied for 90 days and that that is the only warranty you get unless you have a support contract. https://labs.adobe.com/technologies/eula/photoshopcs3.html